Quotes About Authenticity

The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an "I", but it is not his true "I".' His main business is to find his way back to himself.

People are tired of homogenous, fluffy groups.

God loves us for who we are. We can´t work our way to his love. That doesn´t work here on this wold either. You either love someone for who they are, or you can forget it. Love that is earned is no love at all. It won´t last.

There is no subterfuge in you, Miss Adeline. Why is that?" Color came and went in her cheeks. "Everyone has layers. Even me." He leaned closer as his son neared and allowed a curl to wrap his finger. "I look forward to peeling back those layers.

Any man who can't appreciate a classic pickup ain't worth his weight in salt.

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.

All that you say you are, you aren't.

Asking about the childhood is asking for the truth.

Be what you know you are without fear of disapproval.

Do not fight that which you are.

Just remember, who you are, and always take that with you, wherever you do go.

The you that you want to be is always opposite to the you that you truly are.

To be a writer is to gouge out one's mind, heart and soul and splatter them across the page for the world to judge.

To Be who one is, is the greatest Be of All.

Your pain defines you. Furthermore, those who are cushioned from pain are further from their truth than any other soul.

At the end of it all, what flashes before our eyes won't be all the things we did that were bigger than ourselves; they'll be all the moments when we made a difference by being true to ourselves.

Hay nobles de títulos sin onbleza de corazón y hay gentes o personas sin títulos, que llevan engendradas la nobleza de los mas finos y delicados sentimientos en sus almas.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

You cannot deceive the mirror

And this is what I mean by "aging from the inside out." If we merely move around our internal furniture, redesigning our roles and maintaining high gear, we do not see through the ego's charade. Instead, we permit it to continue its endless efforts at control. And this does not carry us deeper into our spiritual center, beyond ego.

We invite the part of ourselves we are working with to step into its Core State and have it. Then we invite our inner part to notice how already having the Core State as a way of being in the world transforms each of our Intended Outcomes.