Quotes About Authenticity

Pride, we know, is an inflated view of ourselves—a false advertising campaign promoting ourselves because we suspect that others won't accept who we really are.2 Pride is actually a lie about our own identity or achievements. To be proud is to live in a world propped up with falsehoods about ourselves, taking credit where credit isn't due.

If you aren't offending someone occasionally by speaking the truth at work, you are likely too wishy-washy and are coming across as lacking depth or backbone.

Physical courage is the type involved in overcoming the fear of physical injury or death in order to save others or oneself. Moral courage entails maintaining ethical integrity or authenticity at the risk of losing friends, employment, privacy, or prestige. Psychological courage includes that sort required to confront a debilitating illness or destructive habit or situation; it is the bravery inherent in facing one's inner demons.

Theodore Roosevelt saw in the Christian men of his day, who "were very nice, very refined, who shook their heads over political corruption and discussed it in drawing rooms and parlors, but who were wholly unable to grapple with real men in real life.

Christian Nice Wives might also bury valid marriage concerns in a misguided attempt to fulfill 1 Peter 3:1–4. They may believe the "gentle and quiet spirit" praised in this passage means that they should muffle their authentic self, as if wives who hide their hearts under a heavy wool blanket please God the most.

you will have to leave behind your need to appear perfect, and instead be appropriately transparent with others.

Look for women who speak the truth in love, laugh easily at themselves, talk openly about their faith, are trailblazers in their own lives, and can both celebrate and cry with other people. You are looking for Balcony Women: women who will cheer you on and give you courage and confidence by hanging over the railing of your life, declaring, "I believe in you! You can do it!

We shall then, for the first time, see everyone as he really was. There will be surprises.4

When the situation seems to be exactly what it appears to be, the closest likely alternative is that the situation has been completely faked; when fakery seems extremely evident, the next most probable possibility is that nothing fake is present.—Erving Goffman, Strategic Interaction

He desired to become the man he was impersonating.

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

Free action is to live in the present society as though it were a natural society.

Unknowing imitation is almost a recipe for bad design. If you don't know where your ideas are coming from, you're probably imitating an imitator.

Wildness is not found but revealed.

I don't tweet or blog or order pizza with arugula on top. You won't find my mug on Facebook or Instagram. I don't have a life coach, an aroma therapist, or a manicurist, and I sure as hell don't do Pilates.

It's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.

I was just being honest and descriptive." "No, you were being an asshole." "It's not my fault they have to always be the same thing.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet.

let me understand this musical theater nonsense—you're being gay for credit, right?

It is only an insincere people that can be accused of hypocrisy.

that is rare, isn't it? To be explained by yourself, by what you are and what you do, and not by what you've done, or were, or by what people think you might be or might become. I

The truth about oneself was not 'something given, something which we have to discover – it is something we must create ourselves'. Even

Before doing my bit I tracked him down by contacting his wife, Marcia Schafer, who guaranteed the authenticity of his incredible revelation.