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Authenticity Quotes
"Don't be consistent but be simply true."
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"What good is an "I LOVE YOU If said only when you have to?What good is it to ride a horse if you cannot gallop?What good is it to believe in someone if you doubt your own belief?"
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"Authenticity isn't just about saying "this is who I am-it is also about being flexible enough to recognize and appreciate the uniqueness in others-honoring the mutual respect for being authentic and true."
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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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"It's only his outside, a man can be honest in any sort of skin."
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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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"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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"No one want to be an imitation of another."
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"Do not always act out of religion."
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"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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"I think people get lost in becoming someone other then themselves when they spend too much time in the presence of those who don't bring out the best in them."
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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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"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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"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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"If we don't know who we are, we conceal our true selves and wear the image of others."
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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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"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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"You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer."
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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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"I can only be me."
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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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"Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open."
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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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"Be authentic, not a copycat."
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"Don't be led by the opinions of others. Listen to your sacred voice."
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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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"Today is the perfect day to do something daring. Like just be yourself, for instance."
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"Who are you not to be yourself?"
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"If you want to lead people, but you have problems in being authentic, you ve lost."
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"Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live."
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"Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain."
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"A star would lose its value if it tried to be something else, just be yourself."
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"There is error in a church when miracles are made the only thing."
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"Don't count on cheerleaders once you start living a life more reflective of your truth. They may not want to do somersaults and backflips for your awakening, not when they're still asleep. Don't let that stop you. Most of us have only been trained to cheer for conformity, to commend those who are just like us. But aren't you bored of being congratulated for fitting in? Aren't you tired of ignoring your heart's requests?Don't wait for cheerleaders. Be grateful if they show up, but you show up regardless, with or without them.You will never be defined by the reception you get from others, only by the truth with which you receive yourself. Be your biggest cheerleader. Love yourself. And applaud every single step you take toward truth."
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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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"There is something original in every one of us."
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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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"I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who choose to fake perfection."
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"An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life."
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"Truth speaks for itself if we'd just let it speak."
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"I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, the whole works--is simply asking too much of a reader. Something happening in a phony way must beat nothing happening in a phony way every time, right? I mean, you could prove that, mathematically, in an equation, and you can't often apply science to literature."
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"We need to become sidha (straightforward), there is no need to become a sadhu (ascetic)."
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"When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach."
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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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