Quotes About Authenticity

Vulnerability in my mind was akin to carbohydrates: I wasn't willing to go there unless it was alcohol-induced.

Personally, I felt terrible for telling Truth my name was Schnitzeldoodle. I still think about it. Sometimes I just have to rock myself back and forth and say, "You've offended so many people at this point. Don't try to keep track now, girl.

It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. If someone truly is a loyal friend, then they wouldn't need to broadcast it; eventually, people will figure it out. Who talks about themselves like that? I have a lot of good friends and not one of them ever introduced themselves by saying, "I'm a very good friend.

Why anyone needed to hold her breath above water was beyond me, but when I make things up, I rarely have a filter.

We were greeted by a dark-skinned man who introduced himself as Truth. We introduced ourselves as Honesty, Happiness, Honor, Witness, Serengeti , and Schnitzeldoodle. We didn't find out until later, when we met our tracker called Life, that Truth wasn't joking with us about his name.

What I grew to learn was that Dan didn't want me to talk around my anger and pretend it was all about Donald Trump.

Often we think we are showing up for someone, when really all we're doing is showing everyone how great we are at showing up. Lack of empathy. That hit me over the head. I have no empathy. Yes! That's right!

I find excessive showering just for the hell of it overrated. I believe people who shower twice a day are hiding a secret.

if you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won't like you. It may not be easy, but it's essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.

Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.

you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won't like you. It may not be easy, but it's essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.

The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance, and Dreams, by Debbie Ford—a wonderful book about owning and embracing all aspects of who we are, such as the overachiever, the

Funny, but after years of practicing Extreme Self-Care, I've realized something ironic: if you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won't like you. It

Don't be serious, be sincere.

1)BEING A POET is like opening a car door & exposing yourself. (2)BEING A GOOD POET is like opening the door & exposing the passenger as well.

SAY EXACTLY what you think until you find that no one is listening then say something else

NOTE TO A WOULD-BE LOVER So, You think you got me, huh? Well, You ain't got me. You only got my underpants And they go back on Just as easy as they came off.

Inspiration can't be performed. It's an audience response to authenticity, courage, selfless work, and genuine wisdom.

Your only real job in giving a talk is to have something valuable to say and to say it authentically in your own unique way.

The plain unvarnished reality that we cannot escape who we are and most of the time we die as we lived.

If you've ever had a friend who cares enough about you to get down in the dirt and roll around, to cry and laugh and shovel the manure of life, you'll know how I felt when Ruthie leaned forward. I still get shivers thinking about her words and how true they were. How true they are.

the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10

Real life, our own life, is viewed next to the lives of celebrities as inadequate and inauthentic.

Paine's power, like Orwell's and Baldwin's, lay in his refusal to be anyone's propagandist. He told people, even people who supported him, what they often did not want to hear.