Quotes About Authenticity

Seules la passion et la joie peuvent être honnêtes. Rien de ce qu'on m'a forcée à faire n'a jamais apporté de joie. Ni à moi ni à ceux qui m'entourent.

Minä menin edellä tupaan ja itkin koko ajan mutta nyt kyllä etupäässä vain tehdäkseni vaikutuksen.

Silloin he taas nauroivat ja heidän mielestään oli tavattoman hullunkurista, että hemuli oli saanut koko elämänsä ajan tehdä sellaista, mikä ei ollut hänestä hauskaa. Ja vain sen takia, ettei voinut sanoa vastaan.

It's nice to have beautiful things that really belong to you.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody else too much, I know.

Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine. - An Eightieth Birthday

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

And all the things I think, and all the things I believe, are making me cry.

Sitting in a church doesn't make you a Christian any more than being in a doctor's office makes you a doctor. It's more than that. The Good Book says it's about believing and confessing.

So tell me more about Miss Hannah. Is she your gal?" Tyler asked. "Hardly. She's no one's gal that I can see. She's her own woman through and through." Tyler laughed. "I haven't seen anyone so pretty since leavin' to join up.

Silence is better than a fabrication.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

Your Winning Strategy is not what you do. It is the source of what you do. It is a manifestation of who you are being.

Under the Re-Invention Paradigm, instead of your word fitting the world, you design your promise as a "world-to-word" fit. You have the world lined up, to fit the promise you have made.

Shift your focus of attention from what you are doing to the way you are being. Specifically: Are you being the "invented future and context" that you created, or are you being "right," dominating and avoiding domination, and justifying the way you are?

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

A nun's habit is authentic, but wearing one doesn't make you a nun.

When the practitioner remains present with the prana and is not wavering, then they have realized the marriage of the authentic state of one's being which is space, and wisdom: ying and yeshe. These two elements, which constitute the authentic state of one's being, cannot be brought together, and because of that they cannot be separated—they function in the state of totality of one's authentic condition where both elements are present.

She believes that going too far is wrong. Yet she's not trying to prove her point; she's just living it out.

if we follow the example of the psalmist The Psalms are an honest expression of emotions.

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

You don't advertise your religion by wearing a label. You do it by living a life. AMISH PROVERB

And I'm so thankful that I've been allowed to show another side of Trish.