Quotes about Authenticity

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

Not knowing who God made us to be, trying to be who we are not, or even just desiring to be someone else, can only lead to a life of misery, frustration, and unfulfillment.

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. Let those who will, allow gold to dazzle them and be borne along in splendor, their very baggage glittering with gold and silver. Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. The friendship which can cease has never been real.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.