Quotes About Authenticity

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.

When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.

Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.

I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.

If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe expedient and thin.

Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.

We think that boxes take everything that's bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

If you go through life worried about what people think about you, then you're not really living. You're just existing.

Don't worry about the haters. They are just angry because the truth you speak contradicts the lie they live.

I would rather be known in life as a honest sinner than as a lying hypocrite.

We spend our lives trying to please people and in the end they don't care about you. Love yourself and pay attention to the ones who make life worth living!

I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.

Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realizing that everyone's paper has different questions.