Quotes About Authenticity

to be exposed when you are performing is where your true strength resides.

you prepare for a pitch, meeting, speech, or negotiation, the goal is to know your material so well that you are free to be in the moment.

You will get to a point in your growth where you understand that if you protect yourself, you will never be free.

Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are?

I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn't make him feel bad. I get it too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten into trouble for drinking too much and using drugs(which apparently he did a lot of). They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let him be who he was.

Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

This, reader, is an honest book...I want to appear in my simple, natural and everyday dress, without strain or artifice; for it is myself that I portray

A noble heart should not belie its thoughts; it wants to reveal itself even to its inmost depths. There everything is good, at least everything is human.

Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked. Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject.

I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own.

Whatever it be, whether art or nature, that has inscribed in us this condition of living by reference to others, it does us much more harm than good. We defraud ourselves out of what is actually useful to us in order to make appearances conform to common opinion. We care less about the real truth of our inner selves than about how we are known to the public.

The way of truth is one and artless: the way of private gain and success in such affairs as we are entrusted with is double, uneven and fortuitous. I

It is a cowardly and servile characteristic, to go about in disguise, concealed behind a mask, without the courage to show oneself as one is … A generous heart should never disguise its thoughts, but willingly reveal its inmost depths. It is either all good, or all human.

Jeg har i øvrigt besluttet mig til at turde sige alt, hvad jeg har mod til at gøre i handling, ja, selv tanker, som ikke må komme frem, må jeg misbillige. Den sletteste handling og karakteregenskab hos mig forekommer mig slet ikke at være nær så styg som den lumpenhed, det er ikke at turde kendes ved den.

Le plus grand art: rester soi-même

For my part, I shall take care, if I can, that my death discover nothing that my life has not first and openly declared.

Whatever these futilities of mine may be, I have no intention of hiding them any more than I would a bald and grizzled portrait of myself. These are my humours, my opinions, things which I believe, not to be believed. My aim is reveal myself which may well be different tomorrow.

It is an absolute perfection, a perfection like that of the gods, to be able faithfully to enjoy one's own nature. We search for other conditions because we do not understand how to deal with the condition we actually have, and we go outside ourselves because we do not know what is within us. So there is really no point getting up on stilts, for even on stilts we still have to walk on our own legs. And on the most exalted throne in the world, we still have to sit upon our own bottom.

Es una perfección absoluta, y como divina «la de saber disfrutar lealmente de su ser». Buscamos otras condiciones por no comprender el empleo de las nuestras, y salimos fuera de nosotros, por ignorar lo que pasa dentro. Inútil

Why do you judge a man when he is all wrapped up like a parcel? He is letting us see only such attributes as do not belong to him while hiding the only ones which enable us to judge his real worth.

The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment.

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