Quotes About Authenticity

you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt. You changed my life so much more than this money will ever change yours.

But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside. I

But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside.

Hey," he's saying softly, "hey . . . this isn't like you." How would you know? she thinks. Nobody knows what is like me. I'm not even sure I know.

I tried to think about what I really wanted, rather than what everyone else seemed to want for me. I thought about what Will had really been telling me—not to live some vicarious idea of a full life but to live my own dream. The problem was, I don't think I'd ever really worked out what that dream was.

Once upon a time there was a small-town girl who lived in a small world. She was perfectly happy, or at least she told herself she was. Like many girls, she loved to try different looks, to be someone she wasn't. But, like too many girls, life had chipped away at her until, instead of finding what truly suited her, she camouflaged herself, hid the bits that made her different. For a while she let the world bruise her until she decided it was safer not to be herself at all.

that counts is the truth, McCafferty," he would say, just before the beer turned his conversation to blather. "Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

Claro que no somos felices todo el tiempo. Ninguna pareja lo es, y si alguien te dice que si, miente como un bellaco. Pero eso tú ya lo sabes.

But then I knew better than anyone how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was really inside.

Slowly, I have learned to judge myself by whether I am being the person I want to be and living by my values, not calculating the value of my possessions or accomplishments.

She was herself, the original. Everyone else was just a copy.

Nothing is so unimpressive as behavior designed to impress

Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love.

I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. —Abraham Lincoln

You have to be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do.

I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. —Abraham Lincoln sixteenth

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?

But you don't want a retrospective, and you really don't want a summary. You want a rich, cohesive, detailed, and real view into the person's personal life or job.

Preach the Gospel, and if you must, use words," comes to mind.