Quotes About Authenticity

Charles Bukowski said: 'Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

He not only talked his talk he walked his walk.

Llegar a tu último día sabiendo que has vivido la vida que la sociedad te enseñó a desear y no la vida que verdaderamente querías.

You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and your heart.

Live a high-volume life. Play full-out. Take risks. Reach high. Don't look back. Be authentic. Be great. "Live to the point of tears

Da, budi dosljedan, budi iskren i budi ono što jesi. Kada to uspiješ, tvoje ?e samopoštovanje znatno porasti i osjetit ?eš veliko samopouzdanje.

The whole reason we are alive, I believe, is to grow into our greatest selves and remember the truth about who we fundamentally are.

an organization that has a culture where everyone's afraid to speak candidly is a place where people live amid delusion and fantasy

you don't have to have a title to be a leader.

When you are doing the right things and living the way nature intended you to live, abilities you were not aware you had become engaged and you liberate the fullness of the person you really are.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it

Be a person of your word rather than being "all talk and no action." As Mother Teresa said, "there should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.

cumplir sus promesas, escuchar atentamente, ser siempre compasivos, y por último aunque tal vez sea lo más importante, decir la verdad.

Se esfumó mi necesidad de complacer, de ser querido y de seguir al rebaño mientras me traicionaba a mí mismo.

Each man had only one genuine vocation—to find the way to himself.… His task was to discover his own destiny—not an arbitrary one—and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness." —from Demian by Hermann Hesse

Sólo cuando domines el arte de amarte a ti mismo podrás amar de verdad a los demás. Sólo abriendo tu corazón podrás llegar al corazón de los demás. Cuando te sientas centrado y vivo de verdad, estarás en buena posición para ser una persona mejor.

no pospongáis todo aquello que debáis hacer para expresar vuestra genialidad y vuestro talento naturales. Vivid una vida que sintáis que es auténtica para vosotros y prestad atención a los pequeños milagros que os ofrece cada día.

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty.

Try not to live your life bound by the shackles of your schedule. Instead, focus on those things that your conscience and your heart tell you to do.

Molti in questa epoca trascorrono le loro ore più preziose occupati, occupatissimi, a inseguire obiettivi banali e divertimenti artificiali, mentre trascurano la vita vera. Questa è la ricetta per collassare alla fine. A che serve passare le vostre mattine migliori e i vostri giorni potenzialmente più produttivi a scalare montagne che, quando sarete deboli e vecchi, capirete che erano quelle sbagliate? Tristissimo.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. Oh, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

Begin to do what speaks to the passionate kid within you and makes you laugh so hard your belly hurts. Rediscover the things that move you and bring tears to your eyes—after all, the place where tears are brought to your eyes is the place where the universe wants you to be.

Tu tiempo es limitado, no lo malgastes viviendo la vida de alguien distinto. No te quedes atrapado en el dogma, eso es vivir como otros piensan que deberías vivir. No dejes que los ruidos de las opiniones de los demás acallen tu propia voz interior. Y, lo que es más importante, ten el coraje para seguir a tu corazón y tu intuición. Ellos ya saben de algún modo en qué quieres convertirte realmente.