Quotes About Authenticity

When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence ' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

It is not easy to be brave. This world discourages authenticity from infancy. It is not easy to do what you just did. It is not easy to just . . . speak. Or even to wait to speak, for that matter.

Some people may like you because of your social status, others may love you because of your money and many may respect you because of your knowledge but only a few may like, love and respect you for who you are.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is the end of it

is there a difference between being the midwife of truth, or the midwife of legends?

Bir insan kendini anlat?rken tarafs?zl?k, ucu yalana ç?kan all? pullu bir yol deÄŸil midir?

Jamais je ne m'abaisserai à dire ce que je ne pense pas, mais je peux parfaitement m'abstenir de dire tout ce que je pense.

Jean wondered how it might be to go out into the night and howl for sex. The clarity of purpose was appealing. No games.

When we take our social role too seriously the first thing we lose is our sense of humor.

Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face. And Shobha had worn the mask of a strong woman for so long, no one, including her, bothered to look beneath it to see the fragile mess she was. *

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

used to write copy. My boss told me: If you gotta say it's upscale, it ain't. My boss said, It's like that guy who tells you he's funny.

Removing your mask helps others remove theirs. Of course, this means acting as if you feel psychologically safe, even if you might not be fully there yet. Sometimes, you have to take an interpersonal risk to lower interpersonal risk.

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

But when I asked Fred directly about the oft-misunderstood concept of self-esteem, he said, "Now self-esteem is certainly not brought about by people saying that a child has done something wonderful when that person doesn't believe it.

You know how when you find somebody who you know is in touch with the truth, how you want to be in the presence of that person?" People felt that way about him.