Authenticity Quotes

"To be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are into the smallest thing you do." "It is better to be a person, than a personage" "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." "Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be" "It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for acting" "Emotionally, I have no picture-book ideas about love." "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are" "Balance is all about the work-life choices you make every day, and how authentic you want to be to the core of yourself" "I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be" "It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching." "The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity" "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth" "Once you label me, you negate me" "The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves" "The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position"