Quotes about Authenticity

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and knowing you can get dressed up in the evening, work it for a minute, and maybe get back in a certain pair of jeans. But there's just no such thing as perfection.

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.

When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

People think you're vulnerable when you tell the truth, but it's never hurt me.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.