Quotes About Authenticity

I want to be liked for what I do, not for what I pretend to be. I try - maybe too forcefully at times - to have the courage of my convictions and to stand my ground when necessary.

Friendship requires trust, empathy, and acceptance. I don't want to feel that I have to wear a disguise in front of my friends; otherwise, the friendship is worth nothing. Friendship means being accepted by a person for the way you are, and vice versa.

Let those who want to dance, dance. Let those who can awaken, awake.

Le garde sut que cette femme ne mentait pas. Elle n'était pas de celles qui s'abaissent à mentir, quelles que soient les circonstances.

Fear wants our answers to be neat and pretty; freedom doesn't care if the truth is messy.

Telling the truth is an important part of discovering who you are

You can only have connection or perfection. You can't have both!

Take back your brain. Take back your heart. Live as your soul intended.

You don't want to wake up one morning and realize that everything you've done in your life has been to please someone else. That you've let yourself be railroaded along the way.

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

Who wants to hear about brave deeds when he's ashamed of his own, and who likes an open, honest tale from someone he's deceiving?

Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are,and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.

A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…

The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.

I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.

Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that's all right. You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds, remember.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers change.

Le paradis, c'est simplement d'être soi-même parfait.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world.

You are led through your lifetime    by the inner learning creature,       the playful spiritual being          that is your real self.

you have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way. It is the Law of the Great Gull, the Law that Is.