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Authenticity Quotes
"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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"You were born to be real, not to be perfect."
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"The only way to make your dreams a reality is to live your truth. To embrace your truth, and embrace it with love."
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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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"We have compromised the integrity of the church if we only emphasise on miracles."
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"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."
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"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."
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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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"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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"Be loved for who you are, for everything that constitutes you. Be loved for your core beliefs, your strengths and weaknesses, your admirable traits and troublesome baggage. Be loved for you, because anything less is not love at all."
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"Don't be consistent but be simply true."
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"Say what you mean and mean what you say. Don't be afraid to stand firm on the decisions that you make. Trust yourself. Believe in your instincts. Do what works best for YOU. Stay true to yourself and be good to yourself. Allow every decision that you make to empower, enrich, and add value to your life!"
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"I can only be me."
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"What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus."
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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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"Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life."
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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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"Charlotte wondered if she would have recognized the crazy much earlier if he looked more like Steve Buscemi then Mr. Medieval Hotness."
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"A human should realize himself and be responsible for himself if he wants to become the true person he is to be."
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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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"You don't need to be perfect, just be yourself."
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"And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it."
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"Human relationships are binary: they are complete and fully loving when both people are authentic or they are not at all."
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"Don't be led by the opinions of others. Listen to your sacred voice."
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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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"I laugh at myself. It's so important to laugh at yourself. Have a little heart chuckle, cry a few tears. It's OK! Don't apologize for being you. Just be you. Be true to who you are and who you want to be!"
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"Be authentic, not a copycat."
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"A star would lose its value if it tried to be something else, just be yourself."
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"Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us."
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"Do not always act out of religion."
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"Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open."
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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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"In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be."
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"There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate."
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"Firen didn't waste any time setting up the meeting with Egnatious. The following day she was in such a rush to tell me about it that she burst into my room without knocking and found Andrew and me in an intimate and compromising position reminiscent of the game Twister. Also, I cannot confirm or deny if there was food involved. Let's just say I toppled over in embarrassment, taking Andrew down with me in a great heap. Firen didn't fare any better, as she nearly knocked herself out when she ran into the doorframe in an attempt to escape. We were both scarred for life, especially after Firen apologized for walking in on our 'naked fun time, which was apparently what Joseph called it. There were some things people should never know, and that was one of them."
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"Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late."
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"I have a fear of living a surface kind of life; barely existing, barely touching or tasting anything. That's why you'll always see me giving my all or walking away ~ I'm too full of depth to dance in the middle of anything."
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"We need to become sidha (straightforward), there is no need to become a sadhu (ascetic)."
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"Do what you feel is right and good. There will always be haters and naysayers..and their problem..is just that..their problem!"
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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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"Nothing is sweeter than being unapologetically you. Don't live your life just to impress others. Reveal your truth, Express your love, Live your dreams."
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"And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad... Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said. Because it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them."
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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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"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but 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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"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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"I don't mind what you call yourself, so long as your heart is being true to you."
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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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