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Authenticity Quotes


"We all just need to be real. That is what will save us."


"We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained."


"If you can honor yourself and be real about your discomfort and pain, then your happiness will be just as real."


"Become the real you, only then will you be happy."


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


"When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us."


"You weren't born to be a product of societal and peer pressures. However, you have to first understand that your presence on earth matters, because your life has a very unique purpose. Therefore, be comfortable with parading your true positive self, accompanied with an undying faith in God's guidance and protection."


"The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could."


"There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it."


"The fear of judgment is the ultimate robber of self-expression and authenticity."


"Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center."


"I've found that trying to be like everyone else, do what others do and follow others 'guaranteed path' to 'so-called success' never really works for me. I have found my best strategy is to authentically be me, listen within and follow it....and then to treat and connect with others - wherever I can - personally, personably and individually."


"Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment."


"You've got to know thyself, date thyself and most importantly be thyself."


"Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek."


"True creation requires authority and authenticity."


"A bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground..."


"Always tying to please others is definitely an assured path to stress and failures in life."



"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."


"What a rebellious act it is to love yourself naturally in a world of fake appearances."


"You are an original masterpiece, imitating someone else diminishes your value."


"There are many things that have distorted the person inside you from what you were created to be."


"Your lifestyle should contrast your obedience."


"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."


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


"We live someone else's life without trying to understand and become what we are really designed to be."


"We all have this perfect little image of who we want to be, but it is unnecessary. Throw the image away. You're already you just be the best version of yourself."


"Be a person of value, never seek approval to be yourself."


"Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside."


"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."


"Some people are in church but not in christ because if you are in christ, the first sign of true christianity is peace."


"I don't care to be pretty, Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside."


"There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now."


"Most people play the role that belongs to someone else."


"When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear."


"Try not to be too focused on pleasing others and end up losing your true self."


"We crave real people and are delighted when we find them."


"No matter how many thousands friends you've had, or even more likes you've got, but if you do not enjoy being yourself, then you just keep lying to yourself and unto others as well."


"A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly."


"The best way to be you is to be yourself."


"Why did I think that the mask was a better portrayal than my authentic self? We can get hidden under layers of illusion, can't we?"


"You do not have to feel truer than others in order to be original.You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you."


"I take my cues from the world around me and carefully paint a self-portrait that the world can't help but accept. However, I would be much wiser to put down all such artistic notions and hold up the portrait of me painted by God simply because that is a picture at which the world can't help but marvel."


"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."


"I'm different. I will give you my treasure chest of darkness first. If you can handle that, then I'll bring out my shining moons. If one cannot handle the darkness, then one should not deserve the light. I have no interest in "trapping" anyone into a silken web. I have no silken web."


"Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real."


"Don't be afraid to show you soul, we need plenty of soul to show in this world."


"We think that boxes take everything that's bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in."
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