Authenticity Quotes

"Inner peace is not about outer popularity." "At the end of the day, you have to live your life for yourself." "I'm not here to be perfect, I'm here to make a difference." "We live in different times and it's cool to be yourself" "When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result." "Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them." "The process of love includes discovering what lies beneath the acceptably beautiful exterior." "No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow" "I would always rather be happy than dignified" "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone." "Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen" "Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change" "To say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words" "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know" "To be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are into the smallest thing you do." "It is better to be a person, than a personage" "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." "Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be" "It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for acting"