Quotes About Authenticity

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

You can't run away from yourself

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.

She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

I love you just the way you are but you don't see you like I do. You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.

Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel.