Quotes About Authenticity

You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true.

Revealed humanity is the common denominator of all authentic communication.

Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).

Show me a church composed of real people who aren't afraid to acknowledge and talk about their flaws, and chances are, it's a growing church. If, on the other hand, vulnerability is met with the cold legalism of others, then prayerfully consider finding a place where authenticity is the focal point.

people cause so much of their own suffering just because they think that without having these strong emotions they're not real people.

There's nothing wrong with you..not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter

That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard." Joanna

I scrape under a nail and I pull out dirt. I pull off an overlay and I smell urine. It's the rot of their lives seeping into their nailbeds, you see? They can fix their hair and paint their nails and run on a treadmill until they're anorexia's poster child, but they can't fix their lives...lives of rotting perfection.'

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

As you take your eyes off the false prize (of more, better, and different stuff), you put them on the real prizes: friends, family, sharing, caring, learning, meeting challenges, intimacy, rest, and being present, connected, and respected. In other words, those best things in life that are free. Like all things natural, building this wealth takes time, attention, patience, and reciprocity (that volleying of giving and receiving that builds relationships).

Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —Howard Thurman, philosopher and theologian

You'll flatten your debt and develop a natural resistance to spending more than you have for things you don't want to impress people you don't like (to paraphrase Robert Quillen).

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

after all, there is such a thing as truth.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.

It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

What is beauty? Is it the way her body's shaped, or the way she's dressed? But if the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Beauty is nothing, beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it's for something else.