Quotes About Authenticity

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.

The unique must be fulfilled.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

People leaders discover that leading is impossible when they forget that they're people first.

honest, focused, positive, and authentic

It's so hard, because so much of the time when I'm here, what you're seeing is not what I'm seeing. I feel like such an imposter. I'm out in my ocean, and you don't know that. And I can't tell you what's going on. Sometimes I'd really like to tell you, but I can't. I'm gone.

I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break.

I hate having emotions about real humans instead of fake ones, it just leads to stupid moments like this.

I can also be kind of an asshole. ("Kind of" = in the 70 percent–80 percent range.)

Sometimes humans can't help but let emotion bleed through into the feed.

He was starting to realize that maybe he didn't actually know the difference between trusting people and just pretending to trust them while bracing for the betrayal.

Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop.

Her face looked younger. She looked like she had been pretending to have hope and now she didn't have to pretend anymore. (Confession time: that moment, when the humans or augmented humans realize you're really here to help them. I don't hate that moment.)

She knows SecUnit is not so much taunting her with its abilities as refusing to pretend to be anything other than it is. And that's for the best, because being honest about that is the only way forward.

I told myself I still looked like a SecUnit without armor, hopelessly exposed, but the truth was I did look more human. And now I knew why I hadn't wanted to do this. It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

I wanted to keep me the way I was.

I'd have to change, make myself do things I didn't want to do. Like talk to humans like I was one of them. I'd have to leave the armor behind.

You are who God made you, not who your father made you.

You have the right to be less than perfect.

People so rarely talked about themselves accurately. They either made too much or too little out of everything. It seemed to Rose that you got to know people much more thoroughly by hearing what they thought and what they did, and then extrapolating the rest as a kind of interesting, intellectual puzzle. All you had to do was listen to the vehemence and passion with which a person talked about things other than himself or herself, and there the person was.