Quotes About Authenticity

The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

successful creations grow most predictably when they tap into a small network of people who do not see themselves as mainstream, but rather bound by an idea or commonality that they consider special. People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realise how seldom they do.

As priorities change, regrets may surface. Bronnie Ware, an Australian nurse working in palliative care, recorded what she perceived to be the top five regrets of the dying. They were: I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I wish I hadn't worked so hard. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

If you concern yourself with telling or showing people how interesting you are, you will at best provoke a temporary response of polite interest until even that gives way to annoyance. If you let people find it out for themselves, you become a real source of fascination.

The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.

If you're comfortable with who you are, however, it becomes no problem to let others be their own selves around you: you have faith that whoever they are and whatever they do, you will be able to respond appropriately.

White [...] "Indian wannabees" or as those who mine indiginous traditions the way multinationals mine their land.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.

Long as you say what people want to hear; you're a real one, but when you start speaking truth, they turn fake real quick. -MillYentei_D.Y.

The one thing I have digested in life, is to give up showing love to Pretenders who broadcast like they are the glorified souls, but really feeding the world hate as they show people their wonderful vibes. -MillYentei

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Humility is truth.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

You may value me for what I have and what I do. But I am not what I have or what I do. If you love me, focus on who I am: my hungers and my fears, and my potential to focus on who you are.

WHEN THE HEART IS OPENED up, when love flows into it and from it, a sense of security prevails. With security comes freedom. There is no need to pretend. We can be ourselves.

Walau tak ada yang sempurna, hidup ini indah apa adanya.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.