Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

There's nothing harder than going on TV and saying something that you don't believe. I don't do that anymore.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise.

Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

People believed what I said was what I believed.

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

One of the advantages of no longer running for public office is that I don’t have to pretend to be nice to people I dislike.

I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real.

A lot of people have their own idea of how you need to conduct yourself. But I think it's important to be spontaneous and honest, because what's frightening in the process of being correct is that you might lose yourself.

Getting to be authentic is so liberating.

My secret has always been to be true to myself.

I'm not going to be around for a long time, so I like to be able to look at myself in the mirror and say I talked about stuff when I'm not supposed to and didn't have to. I could be in the closet, but I feel insulted at the idea that I should be.

How I am in the booth, how I am when I meet you, that's how I am in general.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.