61 Quotes About Authentic-living

"When you choose to be authentic, you dare to be powerful.⁠"

"To understand another person's thoughts and feelings thoroughly, with the meanings they have for him, and to be thoroughly understood by this other person in return -- this is one of the most rewarding of human experiences, and all too rare."

"By no longer relying on approval from others for (false) reassurance or acceptance, you access a Divine channel of freedom."

"False humility is a form of psychosis which was imprinted on most of us since birth. It is a mental illness because it locks us in a victim state of keeping our light turned down, denying who we really are and silently begging for permission to simply show up as ourselves in the world. But there is good news. This is a jail whose lock is broken. We can walk free whenever we know the truth, and by so doing we show others an example of an end to madness. An example of freedom."

"We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead."

"A liberated person abdicates from society’s expectations and embraces living an authentic life undeterred by external determinates."

"A person desires to lead a self-constructed life rather than live a life duplicating other people’s footsteps."

"It is delusional to seek peace and prosperity by settling for a safe life devoted to appeasing other people. We live only once. A person whom pursues outward applause for their life by gaining a sense of status in other people’s eyes surrenders their own values. A princely life demands more than appeasing a phantom audience. I aspire to live an authentic life by following my passion no matter where it leads."

"Authenticity is the sine qua non of everything that matters. When you encounter someone unguarded, without artifice or pretense--Mon Dieu!--you know it. I compare it to being at the top of the mountain: the air is clearer, there's nothing to muddy the senses. It's bracingly refreshing."