Quotes about Authenticity

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are.

Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.

that the most important point is to be yourself and not try to become anything that you are not already.

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.

I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.