Authenticity Quotes

"Better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not" "I am for those who believe in loose delights." "Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite" "The things that make me different are the things that make me." "Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it" "People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want" "When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you limit reality." "A writer often needs he has been untrue to himself in the process of writing." "I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries " "I always sensed in Jimmy Buffett a passion and feeling for the music that ran deeper than just wanting to be a pop star" "You know it's real when you are who you think you are " "You are not the work you do, you are the person you are" "I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie" "You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing" "Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be" "I hope that my work always gets to the heart of what it means to be human." "Become who you are" "All any of us want is to be in tune with ourselves." "You can only find out what you actually believe, rather than what you think you believe, by watching how you act. You simply don't know what you believe before that" "You're always going to have someone who says something about you, but you've just got to remain true to who you are and what you're doing."