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Authenticity Quotes
"We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self."
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"We live someone else's life without trying to understand and become what we are really designed to be."
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"We are never truly ourselves as we are mid-roll."
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"The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and to those whom he loves. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not remembered, nor did these authentic humans expect their names to be remembered. I see their authenticity in an odd way: not in their willingness to perform great heroic deeds but in their quiet refusals. In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not."
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"When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit."
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"Don't ever be afraid to show who you really are, because as long as you are happy with yourself, no one else's opinion matters."
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"Love just feels like the truth."
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"I don't care to be pretty, Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside."
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"We all just need to be real. That is what will save us."
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"Be your self at your personal best."
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"Become the real you, only then will you be happy."
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"The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are."
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"You like a person not because of what they have but for what they truly are."
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"What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity."
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"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."
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"Who are you not to be yourself?"
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"Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself."
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"When I say Be Perfect - it means BE AUTHENTICALLY YOURSELF in expressing your feelings, without any external interference!"
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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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"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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"Be yourself, don't try to be someone else. And the right people will love you for who you are."
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"Originality is the death of mediocrity."
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"I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do."
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"People pretend to be other people because they have never thought of their true selves."
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"To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential."
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"If you can honor yourself and be real about your discomfort and pain, then your happiness will be just as real."
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"The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could."
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"The fear of judgment is the ultimate robber of self-expression and authenticity."
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"To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself."
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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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"Our Christianity has become superstitious."
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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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"It is important to live authentically who you are, to show yourself to your date as the bond between you builds."
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"If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then let others worship you!"
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"Be a person of value, never seek approval to be yourself."
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"I'll never have to give an account for not being more like my favorite celebrity, that shining star in my chosen field or anybody else. And at the end of my life, the question I never want to be asked is, 'How come you weren't more like YOU? You had such great potential. You were a wholly unique person -- unrepeatable and irreplaceable. Why you weren't more like YOU?"
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"She awaits the rain like a writer embraces metaphors, A drizzle isn't for the child who dances in the storm.Of rain that washes away the petrichor it brings, A downpour of a hail of bullets, and she calls it spring."
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"Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life,' declared Anne. 'I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads."
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"The best way to be you is to be yourself."
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"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?"
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"You must detach yourself from the stereotypical life to live an effective one."
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"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."
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"True creation requires authority and authenticity."
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"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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"Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of."
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"Many of us have gotten so used to playing to the expectations of society, of our families,of our friends, and of our minds, that we don't even allow ourselves to consider who we really are or what we really need. We ignore the callsof our hearts, giving our lives, instead, to thedemands of an outside world built on fitting in.We can stop this, right now. We can choose to listen to ourselves, to heed our deepest callings,whatever they are. We can give ourselves thefreedom to be whoever the hell we want to bein this world. Right now, if we choose to.And why wouldn't we?"
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"Do not prove but be yourself."
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"I like a look of agony, because I know it's true."
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"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."
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"We crave real people and are delighted when we find them."
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