Quotes About Authenticity

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions

Following celebrities or people you don't regularly see in person often doesn't add to our happiness. The best use of social media is to deepen existing close relationships or create new ones.

While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.

Don't be afraid to be who you are because you are the only person who knows you best.

Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

No one determines your truth but you.You can't paint your own self-portrait with someone else's hand.

Who are you not to be yourself?

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

The flower replied: you fool! Do you imagine I blossom in order to be seen? I blossom for my own sake because it pleases me, not for the sake of others. My joy consists in my being and my blossoming.

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

Perfection Doesn't Need Adornments or Accessories to Be Called 'Perfect'. It's more like 'living in the moment' which can't be described even by The Wisest Ascetic on this earth.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by.

The real you is not you, the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you.