Quotes About Authenticity

Here's a professional tip: If you have to say you're kidding, it might not be a great joke.

So to conclude my conclusion, follow your passion, stay true to yourself. Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path and by all means you should follow that. Don't give advice, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Don't take anyone's advice. So my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, there are a lot of self righteous people out there. And if you try to adjust your life to please them - by the way you dress, your sexuality, or the ass faces you like to make - you are just going to go crazy and risk being as unhappy as these self righteous kooks are. So enjoy your life. God gave us our bodies as a gift.(Granted, to some of us it's kind of a gag gift, but that's okay too.) Wear what you want, love who you want, and have fun.

Wear what you want, love who you want, and have fun.

We're all supposed to be different. I want so badly to encourage everyone to say, "Who am I and how do I want to live my life?

Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are.

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, "I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster." Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don't worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.

Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.

Untruth yields to truth" A maxim from "Audacht Morainn," an ancient Irish wisdom text.

This is not an act

There are many who profess Christ, but who never become mature Christians.

I'm not interesting. I'm a cliché inside a self-fulfilling prophecy inside a stereotype. I just let it happen. I don't fight it. I'm too busy being alive.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

We make the mistake, as we live our lives, of moving away from - instead of toward - our inner selves.

Social psychologists argue that who we are at any one time depends mostly on the context in which we find ourselves. But who creates the context? The more mindful we are, the more we can create the contexts we are in. When we create the context, we are more likely to be authentic. Mindfulness lets us see things in a new light and believe in the possibility of change.

They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids never lie playfully. They lie as if their lives depended on it.

I always felt sorry for humans, spending so much time in front of the mirror. Fixing their hair, makeup, and clothes, mostly to impress others. Did they really see themselves in the mirror? Was it what they wanted to see? Did it make them feel good or bad? And mostly I wondered if they based their self-image on their reflected one.

Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?

That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.

I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.

You're not in love. You're a wonderful flirt, though. You can put that on your resume.