Quotes About Authenticity

A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

There is no normal life, there's just life.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

This is Life, not Heaven you don't have to be perfect

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

Life is too short to worry about what others say about you. Have fun and give them something to talk about.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.

If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you.

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.