Quotes about Authenticity
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
- Romans 12:9
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
- Thomas Merton
Do not wish to be anything except what you are.
- Francis de Sales
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
- Toni Morrison
...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, --else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, Sing as if no one is listening, Love as if you have never been hurt, and Dance as if no one is watching
- Victor Hugo
True friends are like diamonds; precious but rare. Fake friends are like fall leaves; found everywhere.
- Anonymous
A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.
- Maya Angelou
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
- Maya Angelou
We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.
- Melody Beattie