Authenticity Quotes

"Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own" "Free will is like love: it is real, it matters, it can be misunderstood." "To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly" "People may call what happens at midlife a 'crisis,' but it’s not. It’s an unravelling a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you’re ‘supposed’ to live." "Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance." "We feel lonely when we think we are supposed to be in community with others, but we are trapped behind a facade of perfection." "True belonging is not passive. It’s not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It’s not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it’s safer. It’s a practice that requires vulnerability to get uncomfortable and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are." "We are all routinely encouraged to become cynical, despairing and bitter; the trick is to tell the truth without falling into these traps." "Live from the heart of yourself." "Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation." "The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him." "People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools." "The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die" "To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself" "Only do what your heart tells you"