Quotes About Authenticity

Cele mai multe dintre tensiunile si frustrarile noastre provin din nevoia compulsiva de a juca rolul unei persoane care nu suntem noi.

Love alone is credible.

Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

The hiding of one's essential inner nature is, as we will see, considered to be the ultimate basis of disease and problems in life.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Shortcuts to love tend to be the fast route to long-term troubles.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others.

The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything...

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

To make peace with yourself, you may have to give up a lot. You may have to give up feeling sorry for yourself, straining to be someone you are not, hiding the parts of yourself you fear are unacceptable, and worrying about what others think.

To admit the presence of fear isn't weakness. Only a fool would pretend that he is never fearful.

To be fully and authentically human, we have to be prepared to take off the armor we usually go around wearing to keep the world from hurting us. We have to be prepared to accept pain, or else we will never dare to hope or to love

Several recent authors have written of "the imposter phenomenon," describing the feeling of many apparently successful people that their success is undeserved and that one day people will unmask them for the frauds they are.

True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Islam was no longer a straitjacket into which I forced myself, nor a nonnative language I learned from others around me, but a grammar through which I vowed to write my own stories.

His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

People don't fall in love with each other because it's convenient. They fall in love because they fall in love, and that's it.

I'm not going to tell you how I think you should live your life, or what I think you should do," said Mary. "Now's not the time. But I will say this: Don't try to paper over things that matter, Laura. The cracks will appear. Maybe not immediately, but they will.

I wish I'd learned then that when you call someone's bluff you usually win: it's simply not what the other person is expecting. And swimming along in the slipstream of another's current is no way to live.

People's sense of self worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they've caused. The more solid one's sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

When we think of fear, we think of a 'fear of' something. Far more daunting is the challenge of how to conduct ourselves in the dailiness of love and work when anxiety is high and shame kicks in. This is the human condition. We need not let anxiety and shame silence our authentic voices, close our hearts to the different voices of others or stop us from acting with clarify compassion and courage. In today's world, no challenge is more important than that.