Quotes About Authenticity

An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.

The best way to get what you want is to be what you are.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —HOWARD THURMAN

Give yourself space to be what you are. Give others space to be what they are. Then everything will make itself clear.

It takes courage to leave behind the world you have been taught is so important, and instead claim what is right for you. Ultimately we must, as Walt Whitman urged, "Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

THE MYTH: Being a misfit is a defect you must correct. THE REALITY: Your nonconformity is your pathway to fulfillment.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money Love like you'll never get hurt Dance like there's nobody watching It's got to come from the heart if you want it to work

After a certain point you quit trying to prove yourself to anyone and you simply live in the way that makes you happy.

Cuando tus acciones están en armonía con tu fe, eres fiel a ti mismo y alcanzas tu meta.

If you fear looking at your true self, you'll find many ways to distract yourself from it. Busyness, drama, and addictions are ways of avoiding facing yourself. To find the peace you seek, stop running and just he. Get to know who you really are. Remember the wholeness you felt before you joined the rush to nowhere. Then you'll recognize yourself through the eyes of love, and everything will be different.

Love is natural. Cynicism is learned. Come home.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

Do it because you would, not because you should.

Activities are valuable only if they bring us closer to peace. Relationships are healthy only as much as they reflect real love.

Honesty: When your outer expression matches your inner belief. Truth: When your inner belief matches reality.

Unlike in simulations, reality bled.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Start seeing the world for what it really is—dirty, rough, tragic, and beautiful. It is truly a wonderful mess.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." A

And when people commend someone for "thinking for herself" they usually mean "ceasing to sound like people I dislike and starting to sound more like people I approve of.

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, I'm a Liar, right there on the dust jacket.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what's important, not popular.

Or there's Alex Crowley , tiresomely attempting to persuade his school-chums to refer to him as Shelley's Alastor , like some self-conscious Goth from Nottingham called Dave insisting that his vampire name is Armand .