Quotes about Authenticity

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. —André Gide; French author, Nobel Prize winner

Wouldn't life be so much more fun, productive, and sexy if we fully embraced our magnificently delightful selves?

Everybody arrives on this planet with unique desires, gifts, and talents, and as you journey through life, your job is to discover what yours are, to nurture them and to bloom into the most authentic, gleeful, and badassiest version of yourself.

Take a deep breath, trust your desires, and embrace the fact that your quest for riches is a quest to become more of who you truly are. We don't all desire to live a huge, fancy life or solve world hunger, that's not what this is about.

It's about you letting yourself be the biggest badass you can be, whatever that happens to look like for you.

Once you step away from the herd and let your true self shine, you'll probably find yourself in front of the opinion firing squad (especially if what you want to do is extraordinary and outside of everyone's comfort zones), which is why so many people run screaming from the lives they'd so love to live. Merely allowing yourself to be seen is a risk.

You are a badass. You were one when you came screaming into this planet and you are one now. The Universe wouldn't have bothered with you otherwise. You can't screw up so majorly that your badassery disappears. It is who you are. It's who you will always be. It's not up for negotiation.

but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself that you can possibly see the difference between passion and real love.

but whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer.

I'll walk, but not in old heroic traces, And not in paths of high morality, And not among the half-distinguished faces, The clouded forms of long-past history. I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.

They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things.