Quotes About Authenticity

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

Freebird, the mantra of the moron.

You must sit down to speak this language, It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it. For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you" -quoted in "The Geography of Bliss

It's the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they're not quite telling each other the truth and they're not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.

Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future.

If you want a strong future: You need to get past the stories that you have told yourself and others. You need to hear the heartbeat that's the real you.

Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others.

Each of us was meant to be an original, but most of us die merely a copy. Anyone who discovers who God made him or her to be would never want to be anyone else.

Whatever I obtain through self-promotion I'll have to sustain through self-promotion. #bornforsignificance

No one who discovers who God has made him or her to be would want to be anyone else.

Evil often thrives in the absence of an authentic righteous standard.

So many of us live in a "virtual reality;" it feels real and looks real, but it isn't real.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They no longer work to fit into other people's expectations; they burn with the realization of who the Father says they are.

I'm so glad that she lived her life not the way I wanted her to, but rather in the way she believed she should.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels & free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep & conformists.

A writer doesn't owe a reader hope—the only obligation is honesty...

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

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Yet the informality belies the truth: everyone, with the exception of Adolf Hitler, is terrified. "You felt it to the point of physical illness," one German officer will later write. "Nothing was authentic except fear." And

As a Wanderer, you must be true to yourself. You cannot continue to follow the crowd.

it sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those a little.

So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.