Authenticity Quotes

"You are you That is truer than true There is no one alive who is you-er than you" "Our job is not to be perfect; our job is to be human" "I've always told myself to live like the original me, and not like a made-up character." "I don't think people listen to my stuff. They just listen to the bullshit." "Learn to express, not to impress" "Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always allow itself to be trifled with?" "When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write a brave new ending" "Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness" "I'm as real as they come, I follow the rules" "Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others" "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn" "The realest people don't have a lot of friends" "Men should be what they seem." "They do not love that do not show their love." "My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication— it makes them sociable I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness— it is all that I have— and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well"