Quotes About Authenticity

They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?

We only know who we are by trying on various versions of ourselves.

If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. Now we can add a codicil: If you bring forth what is within you, it will save the world.

Our true self remains deeply hidden, incognito, submerged beneath a web of mistaken identities.

And there is that wonderful, haunting voice of the true self that calls to us, that keeps us company as we stride deeper and deeper into the world, determined to save the only soul we really can save.

If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. Yes. But this saving is not just for you. It is for the common good. If you bring forth what is within you, it will save the world. It will rescue the times. It will save the whole people. Likewise: If you do not bring forth what is within you it will destroy you. But not just you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy the whole people.

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.

I think my dharma is to create a safe space for people. To create a safe container in which people can thrive and be themselves. To be a kind of home base for folks—especially those who have no other home base.

It is, therefore, a very great thing to be little, which is to say: to be ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.

If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. Yes.

When you know who you are, you will know how to act.

The Tao te Ching says, "[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel Ã¢â'¬Â¦ [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

If your born square you don't die round!

Think as I think said the man, or you are abominable. You are a toad. And after I had thought on it, I said I will then, be a toad.

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

he never requires more than I am able to give, and what he does require of me is always appropriate to my knowledge and circumstances....My obligation is to give all I have, not all someone else has, to be as good as I can be, not as good as someone else is.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

[N]egative experiences... and separation from our second side cause most of us to reach adulthood as second-hand people.

A man may lie to his psychiatrist, his doctor, his wife, his employer, to God and to Mom, but his teeth tell all;