1,114 Quotes About Authenticity

  • Author Yasmina Khadra
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    But how can I accept blindness in order to be happy? How can a man turn his back on himself without coming face-to-face with his own negation? You can't water a flower with one hand and pluck it with the other. When you put a rose in a vase, you don't restore its charm; you denature it. You think you're beautifying your room, but in fact, all you're doing is disfiguring your garden.

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  • Author Shayne Traviss
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    And such is life, it keeps showing up. However, we get to choose to be victims or victors, and the greatest achievement of all is to know yourself, to have your feet planted in the earth and your hands reaching for the sky, and to do your best to integrate that in everything you do.

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  • Author Shayne Traviss
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    The light the dark. The ebb and flow. This is life - there will be sunny days and there will be storms. But the power is in knowing who you are amongst it all and not lingering in any one place, just staying long enough to find your treasure and realizing it’s within you wherever you’re at.

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  • Author Shayne Traviss
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    Lifting our heads, looking around a little and stepping away from all the noise can really show us the deep-rooted conditioning and consistent resistance we have to living the life we want, as opposed to the one that we’ve been conditioned to live.

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