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Authenticity Quotes
"There is a reason that the words natural, wholesome, and organic resonate throughout our culture today. Aim to be natural and truly who you are one-hundred percent of the time."
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"Do not always act out of religion."
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"It wasn't a good fake smile. You could always tell when she was faking, because she didn't look friendly; she looked like she was going to throw up."
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"Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal."
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"If we don't know who we are, we conceal our true selves and wear the image of others."
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"Finally, I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am."
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"It's only his outside, a man can be honest in any sort of skin."
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"Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal."
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"Like the unfolding of a rose, allow your authentic self to grow, bloom and emerge.... shine in your radiance and In JOY all that you ARE... send your love out to all you touch... like a delicate perfume in the breeze..."
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"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."
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"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."
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"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."
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"Pretending I'm all grown-up seems like too much work. I'd rather just be me, it's effortless and much more fun."
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"Be authentic, not a copycat."
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"Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain."
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"When you build your life on a foundation of your authentic truth ~ you are fulfilled with joy and enduring peace, you feel you, the person you are meant to be."
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"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."
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"I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them."
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"Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live."
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"A star would lose its value if it tried to be something else, just be yourself."
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"I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who choose to fake perfection."
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"Don't be led by the opinions of others. Listen to your sacred voice."
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"Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open."
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"Today is the perfect day to do something daring. Like just be yourself, for instance."
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"There is error in a church when miracles are made the only thing."
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"The most important thing in life it to be true to ourselves, to never give up attempting to become the very finest version of what we wish to be, no matter how arduous that proves to be."
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"Nothing could be more wrong than the old cliche that says any religion will do just as long as one is sincere. In no other area of life is there so much error, deception, and charlatanism as in religion."
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"I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek."
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"You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer."
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"There is something original in every one of us."
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"Maybe it's easier to conform, to stay in a job I hate to pay bills of the things I don't even enjoy and marry a man I'm not passionately in love with, whilst surrounded by those who have absolutely no life to their smile but I don't want easy. I never have. I want a life so fucking grande' I reach every little milestone in sweats or tears knowing I Followed what was true to my heart. I don't care if I walk alone for the rest of my days, if it means I get to stay true to myself."
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"When I meet someone who is truly genuine, I am drawn to their personality and find them easier to approach, engage, and interact with. They have no hint of false pretense, nor do I worry about hidden agendas."
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"Originality is the death of mediocrity."
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"A 'biomass' man tries to look good on the outside but inside he is afraid of himself."
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"Most people play someone else's role or wear mask of other people because they don't think about what they are created for."
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"Truth speaks for itself if we'd just let it speak."
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"Never make an excuse for being yourself, no one's going to do it better."
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"Very few people do this any more. It's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all."
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"We need to become sidha (straightforward), there is no need to become a sadhu (ascetic)."
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"Who are you not to be yourself?"
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"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."
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"We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self."
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"There is no great reward for being emotionally withdrawn, no pity prize for bottling your frustration. No one is coming to congratulate your chronic self-repression. By opening up, maybe you will inconvenience some people. Maybe you will trigger some conflict. Maybe you will be rejected, criticized, judged. Everything comes with a price and everything has its compensation. Authenticity may require pain, but it also opens the doors to joy, creativity, self-respect, empathy. Self-repression, on the other hand, costs you all the beauty of the world in exchange for a prison of comfort. Is it really worth it? Isn't it time to break free?"
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"For how long are you going to continue hiding your true original self because you are very afraid of what some people might say or think about you? Isn't it time for you to dare to never allow others to dictate the direction of your life?"
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"Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life."
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"People use masks in public and then wonder why their personal life, their relationships, don't work. If you're not being honest with others, there's nothing real about yourself to learn and, the wider the gap, the deeper the suffering. The heart wasn't meant to be closed in a box made of fake feelings and thoughts."
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"A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long."
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"If you want to lead people, but you have problems in being authentic, you ve lost."
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"We are never truly ourselves as we are mid-roll."
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