Quotes About Authenticity

We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us.

Have learned that the most precious thing is a place where you can be as you are, where someone can see you as your true self.

My honour and my pride are in my heart, and not in what the world says.

I would not care whether people thought I was special, if my life was truly special. It would not mater to me that people could see me as pious, if I could truly live as a woman scholar of piety. I want to be what I seem to be. I act as if I am specially holy, a special girl; but this is what I really want to be. I really do.

The truth is the last thing that matters.

She was a woman whose spirit had been hammered and forged until she could only ring true. Compared with the rest of us sho was silver, while we were pewter, a common of lead and tin.

This is a woman who has not been tamed to be as others want; she has not been cut down to fit her circumstances.

A title like 'the Lady,' for those who are too mealymouthed to call a whore a whore.

all begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and "unsurrounding" yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

It takes a certain amount of courage, he though, to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I've done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Everything is becoming so shappy these days. So lacking in worth. I just don't feel like joing the trend. - Fenton Wood-Lacy

In fact, those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be, believing they ought to be, or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards. So in earnest are they that being in earnest is the act. For certain self-aware people, however, this is not possible: to imagine themselves being themselves, living their own real, authentic, or genuine life, has for them all the aspects of a hallucination.

They say that the spiritual path is straight and narrow, but I used to wonder about that. I used to think that the spiritual path was about being good. It was hard to be good because there were only a few ways of being good. I have since learned the opposite. The spiritual path is straight and narrow because all it takes is moving into a lie to make you absolutely step off of it.

Through the years I found two things that clearly tune in the radio station: one is truth and the other one is love. When we tell ourselves the truth instead of lies, we are automatically tuning in Higher Power energy. In choosing truth, we choose to be loving to self and others; then the radio station is absolutely, perfectly clear.

In the end, only the truth will survive.

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

A man is only the man he seems to be. Inside, where no one sees, he may be a mass of gnawing worms of doubt and ire and grief. ... No challenge is easy. The measure of the challenge a man rises to at need is the measure of the man.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

Become what you are, having learned what that is.

La Vita o si vive o si scrive

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory