Quotes About Authenticity

The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

Live each moment from your own inspiration, not from your desire to look good in the eyes of others.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.