Quotes About Authenticity

Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

It was easier to agree than to tell the truth.

Despite my broken heart, or rather, because of it, I was grateful to be where no one knew me. I was totally invisible here. I didn't have to pretend to be happy or nice or that everything was okay.

Watch what people do, don't listen to what they say.

Thoughts are often false. A feeling's always real. Not true, just real

that acting was truthful emotions in false circumstances.

Me amas real o no Real

I take a stand for what I believe in. I don't let fear run my life. I confront people who have injured me. I define who I am rather then being defined by other people. I keep the promises I make to myself. I protect my physical and emotional health. I don't betray other people. I tell the truth.

these labels are not the truth. They are someone else's opinions

I would act, pretend, and the pretense would become real.

You try so hard to shield me, and protect me, and really, there is no need, you try so hard to hide what you want, how you feel, and of course you can't.

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of the personality, temporarily turns aside from the great quest for integration with the inner self, the self that's authentic, the self that contains the potential to be fully human, fully fulfilled and fully alive.

the most important thing of all was that I should be myself. "If you try to be someone other than yourself you'll never be happy," he had said. "You've got to be honest with yourself so that you can be honest with other people.

You look good. You look like shit. That's how I feel. Good. What do you want? He gave her a faint smile. To tell you how much I love you, Izzy. I probably have from the first moment we met.

He was curious about how much of her indignation was real and how much was self-protection.

I try not to be mean or hurtful, but otherwise I'm not much into self-editing.

From the outside, it wasn't much. But to her it was everything she needed. A place to retreat and lick her wounds. Somewhere she didn't have to pretend. Sanctuary.

I am unable to lead a life based on an illusion.

everyone wants one person in the world to whom they can tell the truth and from whom they will hear the truth. Become that person.

Never be afraid of the conversations you are having. Be afraid of the conversations you are not having.

A friend who is a high-level executive, intimidating to many, recently promoted a courageous employee who walked into his office with a large bucket of sand and poured it on the rug. "What the hell are you doing?" demanded my friend. The

Authenticity is not something you have—it's something you choose. In

Unreal conversations are expensive, for the individual and the organization.