Authenticity Quotes

"I'd rather be dead than cool" "The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop" "What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?" "All good things which exist are the fruits of originality" "There is no necessity to separate the inward and outward life, no necessity ever to make a compromise between some inward principle and outward duty" "Real firmness is good for anything. Strut is good for nothing" "Follow your own star" "Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own." "Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can" "The truth is when you’re struggling is the most important time to be honest with yourself." "You should never trust a storyteller; only trust the story" "People are always going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm still going to sing the way I want to sing." "Most of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life within us" "We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause" "I think honesty can be one of the most compelling things." "Cooking well doesn’t mean cooking fancy" "You’ve got to listen to the voice in your gut. It is individual. It is unique. It is yours. It’s called being authentic" "Secretly, we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be" "When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be." "The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience, not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."