Quotes about Authenticity

May you always work like you don't need the money; May you always love like you've never been hurt; and May you always dance like there's nobody watching.

The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.

We've stood by who we are and we didn't listen to anyone else.

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.

This passage is not encouraging unwise activity that overloads your schedule with church events and obligations. Nor does it ask you to turn normal relational moments into abnormal witnessing encounters.

Real change does not take place until it is visible in our lives and our relationships.

When I watched The Outs,' I was like, 'Oh my god, this is just such a great, grounded, lived-in story about people my age living where I happen to live.'

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.