Quotes About Authenticity

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

It's our willingness to be vulnerable that will heal us in the end.

We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.

Look as a painted man is no man and as painted fire is no fire so a cold prayer is no prayer.

Women don't have halos built in.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

Don't spend time with anyone you don't like.

Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.

Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

I'm not prepared to sacrifice my being engaged in the world for just any relationship.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.