Quotes About Authenticity

I never change, I simply become more myself.

who value a handshake more than an unreadable fancy signature,

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!

Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used

Too many of us consent, or are forced, to spend time doing things for which we have no heartfelt reason. If we were asked, "Why are you doing this?" we would not know how to answer. —Parker Palmer

Se dice que hay varias maneras de mentir; pero la más repugnante de todas es decir la verdad, toda la verdad, ocultando el alma de los hechos. Porque los hechos son siempre vacíos, son recipientes que tomarán la forma del sentimiento que los llene

no hay nadie que tenga el alma limpia, nadie ante quien sea posible desnudarse sin vergüenza

Lo más triste que puede pasarle a una persona, tener recuerdos de mentira.»

En lo tocante al amor, ¿acaso no es lo mismo creerse enamorada que estarlo de verdad?

False joy, because you are merely in time, as they say, and not in the soul!

Michael O'Donoghue didn't suffer fools. He didn't need to. Judd

You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.

We are who we are, within our power and freedom. More power and more freedom we have, more we become closer to who we truly are.

I have striven never to betray myself

That is Mary: there are no suburbs to her personality: before you know it you are at her heart.

The point is, you need to distinguish between what honestly moves you and what the world is telling you should melt your heart. If something doesn't reach you on a personal level, let it go. It's hard enough dealing with everything that does.

Trust is difficult to sustain when we build a rich inner world of drama that we do not share with those around us.

People have a right to be the way they are.

Integrity is what you do when no one is looking. LIVING YOUR YOGA: To practice yoga, telling the truth is not enough. We need to practice not lying. Today live with integrity by not lying to yourself about one important thing in your life.

For something to be funny, it has to have an element of truth: lies are not funny. So

The ferret didn't matter. Because there was something about Mick that wasn't a fake anything. And Winnie herself felt more real somehow, running around, looking for the little animal that meant so much to him.