Quotes about Authenticity
Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.
— John Eldredge
The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
— Wayne Dyer
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
— John Wooden
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.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.
— Stephen Covey
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
— CT Studd
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
— Michelangelo
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
— Brennan Manning
Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...
— Marilyn Monroe
In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.
— Jennifer Lopez
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.
— Pema Chodron