Quotes About Authenticity

No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it.

I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Truth is a luxury. We can only afford it now and then.

And isn't that the tragedy of love, it's utter and complete deceit, that you can only be true in it, that you only wish to reveal your full truth to the one you love, with no frills and no lies, that you want to be loved as you are? That you wish to be loved for your truth, and not your ability to hide it?

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Life is about becoming more of who you really are....

Author Neale Donald Walsch says, "So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life ask yourself What is my truest intention Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

The whole point of being alive is to become the person you were intended to be, to grow out of and into yourself again and again

When you can really be who you are and find out where you fit and function from a place of comfort, then you stop working. You stop wrestling.

When people show you who they are; believe them.

When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

what if you decided right now that you will stop letting fear block you? What if you learned to live with it, to ride its wave to heights you never knew were possible? You might discover the joy of tuning out what everybody wants for you and finally pay attention to what you need. And learn that, ultimately, you have nothing to prove to anyone but yourself. That is what it truly means to live without fear—and to keep reaching for your best life.

truth recognizes truth

What is the soul? Indie Arie: The real you. You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

The great American mythologist, author, and philosopher Joseph Campbell once said, "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Some Me of Beauty.

O que eu sei de verdade é que você não pode dar o que não tem. Se permitir que a suguem até o seu tanque emocional e espiritual ficar quase vazio e ainda continuar queimando combustível por puro hábito, todos sairão perdendo. Sobretudo você.