Quotes About Authenticity

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

I love myself when I am laughing.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

The key to happiness is not to make yourself into a different person; it is to let yourself be even more of who you really are.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job. What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

Authentic happiness comes from being in conscious connection with our inner being rather than dependency on outer things and circumstances which are constantly in a state of flux.

A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.