Quotes About Authenticity

When you stop caring about being right in the eyes of everyone—versus being right in your own eyes and the eyes of those who matter to you—it's amazing how little you care to waste energy trying to convince people of your view.

You will live when you live. No one else can ever live your life and no one else will ever know what you know...

This passage is not encouraging unwise activity that overloads your schedule with church events and obligations. Nor does it ask you to turn normal relational moments into abnormal witnessing encounters.

Be honest: have you ever tried to recreate someone in your own likeness?

Yet we are most true to our identity and calling when we live in the midst of broken people.

Real change does not take place until it is visible in our lives and our relationships.

Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.

Take responsibility for what you communicate with others.

nothing is real that does not end on the streets.

If you retweet only the work of humans who have followed journalistic protocols, you are less likely to debase your brain interacting with bots and trolls.

Be kind to our language: avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.

Ninguém (excepto, talvez, um tirano) tem uma vida privada capaz de sobreviver à exposição pública com intenções hóstis.

Some people say, Never let them see you cry." I say, if you're so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

If you abandon yourself in order to be in a relationship, you cannot be in a relationship

Talking about Rosalind in As You Like It] She disguises herself as a boy, drops all the covering inhibitions of "femininity", and really searches for her true self (...) Her disguise gives her the ability to find out about herself, what she really thinks and feels (...). And she can do all this freely, without having anyone in power tell her how women should or should not behave.(...)

Deje palabras quien ama, que sin obras todas vuelan; porque palabras y plumas dicen que el viento las lleva.

I have a will to be what I am, and what I will be is only what I am

Life is a drama, but Death is a reality

False shame only is harmful

E poi, meglio non scrivere e passare per finto che scrivere e togliere ogni dubbio.

Adoro mezclarme con la multitud y convertime en un viajero más: alguien totalmente liberado de su propio papel, de esa imagen que uno tiene de sí mismo y que a veces se convierte en una jaula tan estrecha como la del cuerpo mismo.

Die) Überzeugung, dass es nur einen wahren grossen Meister gibt: jenen, den jeder Mensch in sich trägt. Wenn des Nachts die Stille so vollkommen ist, dass sie zu dröhnen scheint, steht er auf, entzündet eine Kerze und setzt sich ein paar Stunden lang davor. Wozu? "Um zu versuchen, ich selbst zu sein", hat er mir einmal geantwortet. "Um die Melodie zu hören.

Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being.