#authentic

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity. ↗

#authenticity #bar #days #expectations #higher

There's so many young women today who look so lost. And I feel like, of course they're lost. They have no one around them to give them real, authentic reflection. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#authentic #course #feel #give #i

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic. ↗

— David Sylvian

#artist #authentic #freeze #moment #often

Don't be afraid to be who you are, no matter who that person might be. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#be-yourself #being-yourself #loving-yourself #positive-thinking #love

Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#writers #writing #life

Live what you be, not what you see. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#genuine #life #live #quotes-to-live-by #self

Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#growth #purpose #self-care #success #thriving

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. ↗

— John le Carre

#credible #every #fiction #fiction writer #knows

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. ↗