Quotes About Authenticity

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. —Chin-Ning Chu

True love is doing what is good for a person.  False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would have been no good reason to make or release a Nebraska. The album made it impossible to use the word "sellout.

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unraveling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for.

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.

That is beautiful which springs from inner need, which springs from the soul

The artist must be blind to "recognized" and "unrecognized" form, deaf to the teachings and desires of his time. His open eyes must be directed to his inner life and his ears must be constantly attuned to the voice of inner necessity.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

The most enduring heroes are people who don't try to be.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

had it easy. Because he didn't have to run a ministry or manage a congregation, he was free to engage people exactly as he found them. He didn't have to make them do anything for him; thus, he was free to love them and they were free to respond to that love or reject it. He didn't need their tithes to pay his salary, their attendance to validate his ego, or their time to fill out his program.

keep trying to fit into the conventional system but something beckons you beyond that, and you're not even sure how to explain it. Your

The freedom to be honest and the freedom to struggle are key to a real friendship," John said.

Don't be concerned if it's nothing you can point to and say, 'That is the church.' You are the church. Don't be afraid to live in that reality.

If you care about words you learn quite early in life that it is evil to lie.

The truth may hurt, but it is never so agonizing as the dagger of lies we tell ourselves.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.