Quotes About Authenticity

Your mission: feel good about who you are, what you do, how you think, and how you look--without needing anybody's approval!

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

Just be yourself -- it's the only way it can work.

As I see, 90%+ (and not less than that) of people go about their lives living 90%+ (and not less) of a lie. choose a different way and live the least truth you might be.

It's all me. I'm not just one flavor. You're not, either. So it all comes down to which 'you' you want to show the world.

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated.

The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.

All the spiritual knowledge in the world is for naught unless you walk your talk.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

True wisdom comes from the soul, not the brain. When we cut off the soul by giving our power away to the ego part of ourselves, it's as if we're minimizing who we truly are.

You're not going to like everyone, and not everyone is going to like you. It's a statistical impossibility. So don't fret over it, and don't feel guilty or insecure about it.

There is no right or wrong answer for everyone, but there is a right and wrong answer for you. Only you know what would make you truly happy, and you can make the decision easier for yourself by "following your heart.

We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.

It doesn't matter what others think of you if you are fulfilling your life's purpose. If you worry about what other people think or say, you give away your power, and that is a surefire way to live an unfulfilled life. You must not try to be like others. Be original. Speak differently, act differently, and work differently. A spiritless person lacks courage and energy. Remember the child you once were?

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. "What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America" is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, "our Original Sin.

A fearless honesty should characterize both our self-analysis-where we are now-and our pursuit of truth.

Riding horseback along a country lane I saw wild roses in bloom, against an old stone wall. The expensive, improved varieties in my garden have lost something. Sophistication always does.

Please don't say maana if you don't mean it I have heard those words for so very long. Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it. Don't ever forget that you just may wind up being wrong.

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

And if it would be a restless nightingale, be a nightingale! You are a part and Reality is the Whole, So for a few days only meditate on the Whole, be the Whole! If in your heart a rose appears, be a rose!

I have a hard enough time being me, not pulling myself apart every single day. And if it wasn't just my personality and my life choices, but then also my art too? I would die." I

It's not that you want a baby, or want to get married, or any of it. It's not your bag. You just feel tired for some reason. Tired of the world. Tired of trying to fit in where you don't.

I always reel for a few days after I witness someone's personal truth. I walk around feeling like I'm wearing their essence like a tight sweater.