Quotes About Authenticity

I am not interested in a spirituality that cannot encompass my humanness.

No me arrepentiré. Sólo cuando uno se respeta a sí mismo puede exigir el respeto de los demás, y sólo cuando uno cree en sí mismo los demás pueden creerle.

Vedi, nemmeno a contatto con l'infinito un uomo diventa grande se in lui non v'è grandezza. Andar sulla Luna non ci rende certo migliori.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

People are more likely to listen to sermons you preach if they are also sermons you practice.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

All leaders model and message; unfortunately, most would-be leaders model doesn't align with their message.

I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.

What people say about you, good or bad, is not nearly as important as what you are.

You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.

A hero is one who wants to be himself .

May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to. —C. S. Lewis

Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

The inner, the real and the unseen are irrelevant in today's world. All that counts is appearance, and the world of consumerism has lost no time in catering to every need, and then creating even more, in this burgeoning market of the appearance.

The Christian faith is not true because it works. It works because it is true.

Jean Jacques Rousseau was at least right about this: better to face up to one's chains than to deck them with flowers and pretend they are not chains." ? Os Guinness, A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future

Being general, the categories never address us as individuals. At best our individuality is lost in the generality. At worst, it is contradicted and denied. Such categories force us to lie on their Procrustean bed, and anything about us that doesn't fit they lop off. They trim the picture of our personalities to fit their mass-produced frames.

Either we may seek to conform our desires to the truth, which leads to conviction, or we may seek to conform the truth to our desires, which leads to evasion.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.

I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.

I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by that? If I were to speak the truth, I would die.