Quotes About Authenticity

If the imitation is always trying to be something, and cares desperately for its status, the original is really something, but does not care.

She had fooled herself into believing she was living the life she'd always dreamed of living when all she had been doing was hiding from it.

Mirad que no son tiempos de creer a todos, sino a los que viereis van conforme a la vida de Cristo.

Authentic prayer changes us, unmasks us, strips us, indicates where growth is needed.

Embracing your mistakes and highlighting your flaws disables your enemies instantly. (IDCE2013 conference)

Only after giving up 'the truth' can we learn to speak our truth.

It teaches men, women, and nonbinary people how to live skilled relational lives—lives of radically honest, fearlessly assertive, passionate connection to themselves and to those they love.

strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.

Sustaining relationships with others requires a good relationship to ourselves. Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into 'better than' grandiosity nor 'less than' shame.

And I loathed myself. I loathed myself for the state I was in. I loathed myself as an unlovable person. I felt there was something intrinsically monstrous about me, some rancid stink inside my soul that I had barely managed to cover over with the cheap perfume of my charm. I felt mostly dead and deserving of it. I had become an inanimate object to myself. I had somehow misplaced the knowledge that I was human.

Being from a Christian family doesn't make you a Christian any more than sitting in a garage —

A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.

I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie.

Souls wouldn't wear suits and ties, they'd wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine.

Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?

Love letters and poems aren't the least bit difficult to write, if you write directly from your heart into the ink and don't channel through your brain first.

How do I find my tune, my song, my personal harmony that's healing because it's me?

When you dance to your own rhythm, Life taps its toes to your beat.

I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before reaching for the handkerchief. Then I know I'm really crying. Crying just isn't crying unless it's messy.

Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them.

Decorate yourself from the inside out.

Though the road is littered with obstacles, all can be overcome once internal balance is achieved and the soul is true to itself and to others.

In this culture, there is no ego rewards for standing up in public and admitting vulnerability.