Quotes About Authenticity

what people thought of him, then he was no longer a servant of Christ (Galatians 1:10).

Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.

As we learn to embrace our authentic longings and feelings— and cultivate self-empathy and the corresponding compassion toward others—our society will gradually evolve in a direction that is more tolerant, humane, and enlightened.

What is given by nature is not necessarily good, what is achieved by artifice is not necessarily worthless.

People are more slothful than timid. Their greatest fear is the heavy burden that uncompromising honesty and nakedness of speech and action would lay on them.

Sincerity is only as good as what we are sincere about.

If you make friends and make them feel unloved, you become a fake friend. So be a real friend; let brotherly love continue.

Your friendliness with people does not make them your friends.

Choose a friend with God's pure love; not the ones with their own fake love.

Get to know what true friendship really is. Being a scholar doesn't make you a friendship icon.

All friends are not the same. We have true friends and we have fake friends. Which one are you? Which one do you have?

Value your personal difference. If you try pleasing your friends, you'll lose your authentic self.

God says in Jeremiah 6:14: They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace.

We are only as sick as our secrets. The

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

Inhabiting a place that could not be home, they were like actors compelled to play themselves.

Encline aux vérités qui tuent, elle n'avait nulle intention de blesser.

To do the worst thing, the very worst thing, that's the way to be free. I would never again need to pretend to myself to be what I was not.

The truth is we are defined by our actions, not by our intentions.

A minister or a Christian is what he lives, not what he preaches.

True love doesn't flatter; it's truthful.

As a runner, you have to face the truth about yourself on a regular basis, and it makes you more honest. You can't pretend to be faster than you are. You can't pretend that you are better prepared than you are. You cannot pretend to be a runner, you actually have to run.

I had never considered myself to be a dishonest person, hating the idea that I was capable of such mendacity and deceit, but the more I examined the architecture of my life, the more I realized how fraudulent were its foundations. The belief that I would spend the rest of my time on earth lying to people weighed heavily on me and at such times I gave serious consideration to taking my own life.

He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.