1,114 Quotes About Authenticity

The struggle to live up to an “ideal image” of who we should be in order to feel safe misdirects and depletes our energy.

Looking with eyes of love is about not only looking, but seeing.

Perfect valour is to do without witnesses whatone would do before all the world.

True Valour would do all that, when alone, that it could do, if all the World were by.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

Within, you hold a tiny piece of eternity, a fraction of life, a mirror of the universe.

Quoting Viola Davis (who is sharing rules she lives by): '4. I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in that wilderness.

(Quoting Viola Davis)I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in that wilderness.

Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn't authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.