Quotes About Authenticity

It takes lots of energy and hard work to live a false self. This may be the symbolic meaning of the Biblical statement that after the fall the man and the woman would suffer in their natural activities: the woman in childbirth, the man in his work.

Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one's authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically. Children cannot know who they are without reflective mirrors. Mirroring is done by one's primary caregivers and is crucial in the first years of life. Abandonment includes the loss of mirroring. Parents who are shut down emotionally (all shame-based parents) cannot mirror and affirm their children's emotions.

We are all, even the best of us, egotists and self-deceivers, and without a little comfortable make-believe to clothe us we should freeze in the outer winds.

Religion has no place in his heart, his home, or his conversation. He is all talk, and his religion is to make noise with his mouth. Really!

The new convert is tested to see if the words he professes are justified with corresponding fruit in his life. Christian's

The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's

I also know that a man, by the way he lives his life, can quickly invalidate whatever arguments or advice he presents to others for their own good. Yet

porque hay muchos que fingen ser obreros del Rey, y dicen que están arreglando el camino del Rey, y traen lodo y estiércol en lugar de piedras, y por eso manchan en lugar de reparar".

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?

People dont care what you know until they know what you care

People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. If

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet" deny your own experience or convictions. —Dag Statesman and Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Leadership is often misunderstood. When people hear that someone has an impressive title or an assigned leadership position, they assume that individual to be a leader. Sometimes that's true. But titles don't have much value when it comes to leading.

when you find yourself, you find your audience.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities he does not possess.

When it comes to identifying a real leader, that task can be much easier. Don't listen to the claims of the person professing to be the leader. Don't examine his credentials. Don't check his title. Check his influence. The proof of leadership is found in the followers. I

you should not be led by popular opinion;

Believe in what you say. Then, live what you say. There is no greater credibility than conviction in action.

La humildad no es negar sus fortalezas. La humildad es ser sincero acerca de sus debilidades". —Rick Warren

If you know something without having lived it, your audience experiences a credibility gap.

When you get right down to it, intentional living is about living your best story.

Most people want to hear or tell a good story. But they don't realize they can and should be the good story. That requires intentional living.

You shouldn't become too concerned about what others might think of you. You should be more concerned about what you think of yourself.