Quotes About Authenticity

The day we mean what we say, even a "good morning" can be transformational!!!

Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.