Quotes About Authenticity

Why, Katie wondered, eyeing them at the altar, is false love so proud, and true love so fearful?

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory." -Commencement Speech

The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results.

Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.

Isn't it evident we need more God and fewer gimmicks?

Fuck fashion in the face of need, and fuck it anyway just on good general principles.

Sincere empathy works wonders. Sarcastic empathy backfires every time.

that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

Anyone who hides within the crowd is a coward.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.

I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

At any organizational level people are leaders not because of what they do, but because of who they are.

Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

Are you surrounded by rock stars or lip-synchers?

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.

Where's your will to be weird?

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

The minute it doesn't feel good, stop doing it. It's that simple.