Quotes About Authenticity

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

The way to truth stands open only to those without intentions.

There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation...What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours...You must fulfill the way that is in you.

Not everything I bring forth is written out of my head, but much of it comes from the heart also.

We cannot slay our incapacity and rise above it, but that is precisely what we wanted. Incapacity exists. No one should deny it, find fault with it or shout it down.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything that I can not explain as a fraud.

Worry is the fear we manufacture—it is not authentic. If

Generally speaking, rapport-building has a far better reputation than it deserves. It is perceived as admirable when in fact it is almost always done for self-serving reasons.

Gay Hendricks

Where do I feel out of integrity with myself? What is keeping me from feeling complete and whole?

Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and armor, and become more self-accepting, revealing, and honest.

The moment a structure begins to promote itself, it has violated the nature of Christ and has drunk the poison of its death.

This is the you I like. You definitely dressed sexier and are, you know, blond, and that's different. But the you who are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow. I love that you're fragile and tough, quiet and kick-ass.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

It's funny how once you start pretending, you realize how much everyone else is too.

The people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

Are you coming down with something?" Mom asks. And just for the tiniest of seconds, I wonder what would happen if I told them the truth. That school is nothing like I imagined it would be. That I'm not the girl in the catalog at all. I'm not a Happy College Student. I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

It's an act of bravery to feel your feelings.

This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am." The look he gives me is withering. "Do you?

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.

Hasta que lo sientas, fíngelo.