Quotes About Authenticity

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.

Be bold, free, and truthful.

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.

When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of "just anything".

Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.

I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.