Quotes About Authenticity

Free yourself. Live your life. Stop apologizing for who you are.

Integrating the mind is the essence of life. Decide you will always say and do only what you feel is right. Then, you will come to tremendous clarity and conviction in the inner and outer worlds.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

People suffer when they pursue a life or chase a dream that doesn't belong to them.

You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice.

I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose.

Ultimately a life message shouts more clearly and loudly than a brand message. Your image may communicate an outward brand, but your life shouts the real inner message.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

And I deeply pray that everyone discovers that they can strip away anything that might be holding them back on every level, and can begin living life from the real essence of their own soul.

Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.

Don't waste your death on a half assed life

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

You have to do your thing no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.