1,114 Quotes About Authenticity

A moment gives us a brief period to be fully present, and be our most authentic self, before it completely vanishes like magic. Now you see it, now you don’t.

Now is the most real moment there is. I live in the moment of now.:

The truth is that all of the moments of our lives are magical because we are alive in them.

A magical moment reminds us of how magical life canbe, but it doesn’t mean its job is to entertain us, or inebriateus, or exalt us, or make us feel special all of the time. That’sputting the burden onto something outside of ourselves.

Find your stillness. Find your acceptance. Find yourgratitude. And most of all find you in the magic. You’rethere. You’re the magic moment. Now let it happen and itwill. Believe in yourself.

You are the director of your life movie, and can change,alter, enhance, and even erase an image, impression, scene,or scenario that serves no positive purpose for you to holdonto. Our memories create pictures in our minds, and we canchange them, rearrange them, or delete them as we wish.

In Zen, there is an old saying: The obstacle is the path. Know that a whole and happy life is not free of obstacles. Quite the contrary, a whole and happy life is riddled with obstacles-they simply become the very stepping-stones that help lift us to a new perspective. It is not what happens to us in this life that shapes us, it is how we choose to respond to what happens to us.

Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.

Imitating someone is a conscious reminder to your subconscious that you don't exist.