Quotes about Authenticity

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind — that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality — its inexpressibility.

I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.