Quotes About Authenticity

Below the level of the problem situation about which the individual is complaining—behind the trouble with studies, or wife, or employer, or with his own uncontrollable or bizarre behavior, or with his frightening feelings, lies one central search. It seems to me that at bottom each person is asking, "Who am I, really? How can I get in touch with this real self, underlying all my surface behavior? How can I become myself?

It will be clear that the very expression of this fear is a part of becoming what he is. Instead of simply being a façade, as if it were himself, he is coming closer to being himself, namely a frightened person hiding behind a façade because he regards himself as too awful to be seen.

I find that this desire to be all of oneself in each moment—all the richness and complexity, with nothing hidden from oneself, and nothing feared in oneself—this is a common desire in those who have seemed to show much movement in therapy. I do not need to say that this is a difficult, and in its absolute sense an impossible goal. Yet one of the most evident trends in clients is to move toward becoming all of the complexity of one's changing self in each significant moment.

The modern self assumes the authority of inner feelings and sees authenticity as defined by the ability to give social expression to the same.

Given all this, we can see why the foul-mouthed politician has supplanted the polite and reserved one, because in a world where the inner voice is key to the real person, the former is authentic while the latter presents a public image likely at odds with his private behavior.

Abandoning the myth of the evangelical movement can only help us, as it will free us to be who we truly are and to speak the gospel in all of its richness as we understand it.

In fact, Rousseau's focus in Confessions on his inner psychology and the idea of the true self that he articulates in the Discourses together represent what we noted in chapter 1 is now known as expressive individualism, the notion that I am most truly myself when I am able to express outwardly what that voice of nature says to me inwardly. Doing that, to use modern parlance, is what makes me authentic.

Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

The one who gets you is the one who makes you forget you ever desired anything as dull and ridiculous as perfection.

This is crucial: as long as we pray only when and how we want to, our life of prayer is bound to be unreal. It will run in fits and starts.

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This ideology failed because it was a profoundly inauthentic prescription: it is humanly impossible to genuinely respect beliefs no matter how irrational, immoral, or absurd. The resulting culture was emotionally frozen and often did not lead to fruitful discussion between worldviews in general, and between secularism and religion in particular.

This chapter argues for civilized disdain, an alternative to political correctness that is more authentic and more attuned to what we really feel toward worldviews that we do not approve of on moral or intellectual grounds. The difference between civilized disdain and political correctness is that the former allows one to feel disdain for a person's or group's views or beliefs while maintaining respect for the human beings that hold them.

A: Mahal? Ano'ng alam mo sa pagmamahal?! Isa lang ang hinahanap ninyo sa mga lalaki 'di ba? Basta mapuno lang 'yan mga bibig ninyo, masaya na kayo! B: Huhuhuhu! Hindi totoo 'yan, Lester! Mahal talaga kita! Hindi ka naman gan'on kalaki para mapuno ang bibig ko, maniwala ka, Lester! Huhuhu!

Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

Que a felicidade não dependa do tempo, nem da paisagem, nem da sorte, nem do dinheiro. Que ela possa vir com toda simplicidade, de dentro para fora, de cada um para todos. Que as pessoas saibam falar, calar, e acima de tudo ouvir. Que tenham amor ou então sintam falta de não tê-lo. Que tenham ideais e medo de perdê-lo. Que amem ao próximo e respeitem sua dor. Para que tenhamos certeza de que: "Ser feliz sem motivo é a mais autêntica forma de felicidade.

Ser feliz sem motivo é a mais autêntica forma de felicidade.

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on.

I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team.

You want the truth, Master Skilley? Then find out just what manner of cat you really are... and brazenly, unabashedly, boldly, be that cat.