Quotes About Authenticity

I think most people are really two people, the person on the inside that we keep hidden, and the person on the outside that we dress up and fix up and show to the world as a form of protection.

Love is facing your inner and outer faults then accepting you are still you.

You tell me your truth like your spreading your wings and that's the most beautiful thing about your life.

You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E.E. Cummings

Mental illness didn't really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was less like obliteration, more like italics.

When I thought about it, though, what I liked best about the session was that Helder said fuck. A good, hard word, a word with a life of its own, a fearless word. A rent in the dry elegance. Fuck.

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. —Alan Watts

When in doubt, tell the truth. —Mark Twain

The truth shall set you free.

The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. —Harpo Marx

Only do what your heart tells you. —Princess Diana

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't, they never were. —Richard Bach

Yes, there was a trick to it. You inherited your life, or you invented it. You figured out what you wanted life to be and then somehow or other you made it that way. Then, miracle of miracles, you liked it!

When you are genuinely being your true self, you need no words of explanation. You just are.

Making the decision to honor the wisdom of one's soul isn't always easy. It can bring into question our very sense of who we are. If we really listen to the truth bubbling up beneath the surface of our lives, things might change. We might have to face the fact that our inner wisdom and that which we have come to accept as true, safe and popular may be very different--a process that can be rather disconcerting, to say the least.

No one benefits from you not following your truth.

We may bury our soul's truth, but we can never really escape it.

I couldn't shake the feeling that something wasn't quite right. I now realize that was probably the first sign my soul wisdom--the voice of my inner, truest self--was trying to get my attention.

For a long time, I felt like I was living a closeted life, hiding what seemed most real to me from the rest of the world...I feel incredibly grateful to all those who have entrusted me with their own deeply personal stories of creative awakening.

You can't tell people what to be, I'm afraid," said Rosie. "You can only love and support who they already are.

I wish for my child, for all our children, a world where they can be who they are and become their most loved, blessed, appreciated selves.

How did you teach your small human that it's what's inside that counts when the truth was everyone was pretty preoccupied with what you put on over the outside too?