David Simon Quotes

I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

It's about me doing me, about me being organic. I can't wear things and put on a front and say I like something when I don't. I won't wear something I wouldn't normally wear just for people to like it or for people to look at me like this or that in fashion.

Your self is sacred; be true to it.

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

It's easy to be drowned out by the crowd, but to thine own self be true, say I, no matter what everybody says, no matter what the popular vibe is.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life. There may be a flash of illumination here and a story of faithfulness there; you should truthfully record your real self and not what other people may see in you.

It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.

Creating authentic power means aligning your personality with your soul.

If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.

The soul is the truth of who we are.