Quotes About Authenticity

They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.

People want you to be ordinary.

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

When we relate and share knowledge authentically, this places us in a state of grace, a state of 'win-win' harmony with all others, and establishes trust among all.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

But life isn't about finding yourself or finding anything, Dylan said, it's about creating yourself.

If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit.

If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit." "That's

I hope you make those decisions because you feel they are the right thing to do, not because of peer pressure or because you're trying to fit in.

He didn't have to maintain his pride or protect his image. I wasn't his parent or his priest, so he had no obligation to confess. I didn't judge him, so he had no reason to be defensive. I didn't expect him to be anyone, so he had no reason to be anyone but himself. He just needed to get those stories out, to purge an evil spirit.

You are every bit as normal as any other boy, in here, where it counts. Our skin, our hair, and our eyes are simply the shell that surrounds our soul, and our soul is who we are. What counts is on the inside.

you're embarrassed to have it read, then you probably shouldn't be doing whatever you're writing about in the

Jesus did not have the time nor the desire to scatter himself on those who wanted to make their own terms of discipleship.

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?

It is always better to live with reality, because otherwise, without fail, reality will come to live with you. —The Aghori Vimalananda

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

There's nothing like surrounding yourself with people who actually like you just the way you are–people who are not trying to improve you, change you, manipulate you, save you, etc. There is a line. On one side of the line are those who will give you the news–good, bad, and indifferent. They care about you and your success. On the other side of the line are those who do not actually care about you and have motives other than true support.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

It doesn't matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

It certainly is no proof that a man is inspired simply because he is right.

Nobody ever saw anybody who had seen anybody who had heard of anybody that had ever seen anybody that had ever seen one of the original Hebrew manuscripts.