Quotes About Authenticity

I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.

I don't care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces 'intelligence.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.

If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.

You can't be yourself within jealousy.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses.

When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

I don't bless people because I don't wanna. I do it because that's what kind of person I am. It's almost like i can't resist." ? Sage Canny

When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.