Quotes about Authenticity

You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running.

You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge.

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you — except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.

When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.

Michelle was someone who started from the heart and not the head, from experience rather than abstractions.

There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, 'Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul's address

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.

she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

It is character that communicates most eloquently...In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity.