Quotes about Authenticity

The whole point of being alive is to become the person you were intended to be, to grow out of and into yourself again and again

When you can really be who you are and find out where you fit and function from a place of comfort, then you stop working. You stop wrestling.

When people show you who they are; believe them.

What is the soul? Indie Arie: The real you. You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

The great American mythologist, author, and philosopher Joseph Campbell once said, "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they're pretending to be something they're not.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

I know for sure that only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.