Quotes about Authenticity

You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.

What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?

And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily--open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense.

People want something that's relevant to their lives. They want something that means something to them, and they want something where it seems like people have thought about what they're saying.

When I go back to Louisiana, I want to be the same person that my friends remember me as. It's so important to me.

Even the greatest musicians, they only represent themselves. You represent who you are and what your experiences are and what you have in your heart, and it's the same for me. I represent who I am and what I've been through and what I'm bringing to the music.

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.