Authenticity Quotes
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"Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share."
"There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you."
"How would your life be different if…You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day…You dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity."
"A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself."
"Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?"
"Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic and REAL, it doesn’t need gloss or polish or glitter to shine."
"Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity"
"Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you."
"Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story."
"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
"Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential."
"Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life; it is what gives meaning to life."
"As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65"
"No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there."
"They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it."
"You were born with a song in the seat of your soul; let the life that you live be the singing of it."
"The brand building process is a marathon that takes time with patience, persistence, consistence, and authenticity to deliver on your unique promise of value"
"We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead."
"If you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want."
"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
"What it means to be authentic:- to be more concerned with truth than opinions- to be sincere and not pretend- to be free from hypocrisy: "walk your talk"- to know who you are and to be that person- to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities- being confident to walk away from situations where you can't be yourself- being awake to your own feelings- being free from others' opinions of you- accepting and loving yourself"
"what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial."
"Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do."
"Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived."
"Your greatest path of influence is love."
"You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you."
"High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self."
"Vulnerability really means to be strong and secure enough within yourself that you are able to walk outside without your armor on. You are able to show up in life as just you. That is genuine strength and courage. Armor may look tough, but all it does is mask insecurity and fear."
"When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others."
"Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier."
"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create."
"We long for authenticity, yet spend much time comparing and contrasting ourselves to others. We are each one special, unique and authentic in our own right. The only way to measure yourself is not against another, but by the Creators divine blueprint of you and you alone. Be yourself~ you are divinely different and unique!"
"You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in."
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses"
"The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world that you can't be cheered out of. You don't need solutions. You don't need to move on from your grief. You need someone to see your grief, to acknowledge it. You need someone to hold your hands while you stand there in blinking horror, staring at the hole that was your life. Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried."
"Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't."
"True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward."
"Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried."
"When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain."
"She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind."
"In a world full of automated responses be the one who responds personally!"
"Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life."
"Your authenticity is the gateway to all good things."
"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."
"When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'."
"Being your authentic self reassures the people you meet."
Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
"In a world of increasing fakery, genuine people are the sexiest."
"What may appear to be the wrong way by other people's standards may indeed be the perfectly inspired path by which you will arrive at clarity of mind and a more authentic expression of yourself."
Linda Cull, Where The Light Lives: A True Story about Death, Grief and Transformation
"Don't worry about not doing "it" perfectly right now. It's ok, just keep at it, you will soon settle in it and then you'll be glad you didn't give up."
"Don’t walk through life stifling your authenticity, suppressing your uniqueness, hiding your truth out of fear of what others may think. Being someone other than you are only hampers your wellbeing and also wastes a whole lot of your energy."
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