Quotes About Authenticity

I know I'm not perfect & will never become. Yet, I'm proud of being Me, with all humility & imperfections. Cause this is the only life I have.

It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets.

The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

More depends on my walk than talk.

To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours.

You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.

Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.

In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

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

He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

Life is about becoming more of who you really are.

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.