1,114 Quotes About Authenticity

To be great, we need a little criticism from all the people around us. Yes, just a little. Because we must know that there is a significant difference between criticism and an insult. We must not absorb all the bad energy that surrounds us and all the assumptions that often underestimated our abilities, which in the end, will only make us become another person, and over time we will let go of our authenticity.

Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic and REAL, it doesn’t need gloss or polish or glitter to shine.

Stop leaning into your career while leaning out of your life. Instead, it’s time to lean in a totally different way altogether.

You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.

When you let me see you, you give me permission to be seen.

It is far too trite to simply say that we should be ‘thankful,’ for that renders thankfulness as some sort of socially conditioned practice empty of everything and full of nothing. Rather, we should sternly commit to being perpetually thankful so that we might become people empty of nothing and full of everything.

Harnessing likability is about uncovering what is authentically likable—in you, in the other person, in your connection.

At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification. Conversely, much that culture traditionally condemned and sought to exclude is accorded a considerable moral authority by reason of the authenticity claimed for it, for example, disorder, violence, unreason.

To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.