Authenticity-quotes Quote by Susan C. Young

“I knew what wanting to be someone else was like. I knew what wanting to be anyone else was like. It was a huge…

— Nicole Williams

“For so long, I gave in to my self-loathing. I refused to allow myself the simple pleasure of accepting who I am and how…

— Roxane Gay

“The wanting was quickly becoming aching. I didn’t want to be like this anymore; constantly thinking about and wanting someone that I couldn’t have…

— Suzanne Wright

“This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the…

— Kandi Dougherty

“That was the danger of pretending to be someone else all the time. If you do it long enough, eventually you start to become…

— Tracy Rozzlynn

“We all wanted to be somebody else. Somebody braver, or more handsome, or smarter. It’s what children want. It’s what you grow out of,…

— Robert Goolrick

“I also remember defining myself by the people and the things that I hated rather than what I liked, thinking that it was cooler…

— Hank Green

“I wanted, then, to become what I most admired, what now seemed most real to me. I wanted to be that exalted, complicated presence…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people…

— Brené Brown

“Some people came into your life and they changed it completely and then they slipped out of it again before you could grab ahold…

— A. Meredith Walters

“You must accept yourself for who you are, to become the person that you want to be.”

— Niat

“I felt as if I had gotten to the point where I could no longer trust myself. I was not the same person any…

— Benjamin Jones