Quotes About Authenticity

You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone, if you do, you will be respected by no one.

If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.

Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Seek out people who aren't afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

After a certain age, we put on a mask of confidence and certainty. In time, that mask gets stuck to our face and we can't remove it. As children, we learn that if we cry we'll receive affection, that

Even you, the person asking the question. 'I'm useless' is the answer you give yourself. Soon that answer will poison you and you will die while still alive, even though you still walk, eat, sleep and try to have a little fun whenever possible. Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.

I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.

Instead of accepting ourselves as we are, we try to imitate what we see around us.

Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

I'm just like that woman really. Or rather, that's what I used to be like: someone pretending to know everything, hidden away in my own silence

Well, then, why should I listen to my heart? the boy said Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you're thinking about life and about the world.

If everyone could know and live with their inner craziness...people would be fairer and happier.

And yet we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don't fit with what we call "maturity.

Ali ne smemo nikad smetnuti s uma da je duhovno iskustvo Ljubavi. A u Ljubavi ne postoje pravila. Mozemo pokusavati da se pridrzavamo prirucnika, da vladamo svojim srcem, da izgradimo strategiju ponasanja-ali sve su to kojestarije. Srce odlucuje, i to sto ono odluci, jedino i vazi.

Loyalty can never be imposed by force, fear, insecurity, or intimidation.

One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself!

we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don't fit with what we call "maturity.

i was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is.

The pure force of life are in communication with each other, independently of us, and then we cannot hide who we are.

I want to feel the rain on my face, to smile at any man I feel attracted to, to accept all the coffees men might buy for me. I want to kiss my mother, tell her I love her, weep in her lap, unashamed of showing my feelings, because they were always there even though I hid them.