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Authenticity Quotes
"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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"Create a life that feels good on the inside, not just one that looks good on the outside."
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"Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial."
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"In a crowd do not lose your individuality, and in your individuality do not lose the crowd."
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"People should see genuine, authentic love in the church."
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"I can only be me."
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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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"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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"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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"We have compromised the integrity of the church if we only emphasise on miracles."
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"You were born to be real, not to be perfect."
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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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"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Do not always act out of religion."
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"Don't be led by the opinions of others. Listen to your sacred voice."
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"Don't be consistent but be simply true."
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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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"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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"A star would lose its value if it tried to be something else, 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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"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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"Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us."
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"Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open."
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"In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be."
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"If you want to lead people, but you have problems in being authentic, you ve lost."
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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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"Never make an excuse for being yourself, no one's going to do it better."
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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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"All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real."
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"Be authentic, not a copycat."
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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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"I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who choose to fake perfection."
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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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"Being passive is not the same as being peaceful. If you aren't doing what you know, in your heart, you want to do, you are NOT going with the flow. You are going against the flow. Your reactions, emotions, desires, and talents are all part of the flow of life. Ignoring them is passive resistance. Let yourself go."
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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 don't mind what you call yourself, so long as your heart is being true to you."
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"I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs."
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"We need to become sidha (straightforward), there is no need to become a sadhu (ascetic)."
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