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"REAL people do not have to lie, exaggerate, or brag for they are self-contained in self-understanding and acceptance of themselves. REAL people can make a mistake knowing that even when they do, it is only a mistake and just because the outcome was not to their liking, they know THEY are not a mistake. REAL have the attitude this is who I am and I am good enough, right now just as I am. People who have chosen REAL have already clicked their heals together and returned home."
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"Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself."

"If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it."

"Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them."

"A human should realize himself and be responsible for himself if he wants to become the true person he is to be."

"Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked."

"The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are."

"Your life "behind the scenes" must correspond to your life "on stage." What you preach must correspond to how you live."

"Be true to yourself to reveal your own unique beauties, feelings, and perceptions."
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"Other people feel love when we listen without judging and accept them without demanding change. We all desperately require these basic needs. When we can do this for another, we are indeed that person's angel."

"We violated each other's boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of 'just kidding."

"Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living."

"The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain for isn't this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people."

"People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary."

"Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin."

"Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe their parental reality, true or false."

"The key problem I encounter working with wounded, depressed, and unhappy people is a lack of connection starting from a disconnection from themselves and then with others. This is why love often becomes so distorted and destructive. When people experience a disconnection from themselves, they feel it but do not realize the problem."

"Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand."
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