Quotes About Authenticity

If God wanted me to be someone I was not, then I would not be the person I am today.

Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Life is a reality without a rubber.

Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

I love being my silly ole self! Lifes a lot better when you have a good sense of humor and you smile.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

Life is full of fake people.

Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Life isn't all haha hehe.

Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

Dont ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story.

Voyage upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And, whatever your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.