Browse 1568 quotes about Authenticity.
“You can’t automate trust. You have to earn it. Slowly. Honestly. With your hands visible.”
“If the relationship requires you to become smaller, quieter, or less yourself, it’s not a relationship—it’s a performance.”
Source: Stop Dating the Wrong Letters Companion Guide: Decode Love, One Letter at a Time (alphabetically Speaking)
“And even when he guessed that the love stories of the misled and the forsaken had become a little less authentic with each retelling . . . even if this was the case, he was still moved. Indeed, he was more moved by the lives of the bereft and the unchosen than he was by stories of success in love.”
Source: The Only Story
“The people meant for you will feel like rest, not effort. What you carry quietly is often the map someone else needs to find their way.”
“By letting go of your personas that restrict what you say and do, you may find that it’s more liberating to act like you are and say what you think. This may help you express yourself better and connect with others more deeply, and you may even reduce your stress and garner more allies or support you need.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“Sex needs to be an equal exchange, a shared creation. Both must feel that their experience matters; not as pretence, but in truth.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“Silence is never empty. It speaks the truths we’re too afraid to voice.”
Source: In the Spaces We Don't Talk About: A Companion For the Upspoken Truth We Carry
“She loved when he just rambled, effortlessly profound, without an ounce of self-consciousness. She loved seeing how he processed the world; hearing his messiest, unformed thoughts.”
Source: Katabasis
“People often say one thing but mean another; the truth lives in the space between.”
Source: In the Spaces We Don't Talk About: A Companion For the Upspoken Truth We Carry
“Humor creates safe space. It gives permission for connection without perfection. It allows your Inner Springfield residents to gather, awkward and messy, and still toast marshmallows over the burning remains of a failed potluck without blaming anyone for bringing the wrong salad.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor
“boundaries, dating, empowerment, relationships, self-care, personal growth, insight, authenticity, mental health, resilience”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Modern Dating: From First Move to First Date
“A great date isn’t about perfection; it’s about showing up as yourself and creating a space for genuine connection.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Modern Dating: From First Move to First Date
“When your partner says 'I love you' 24 times per day but never does anything for you, 'show, don’t tell' becomes a very easy concept to grasp.”
“A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Real love isn't born of perfection. It's built on truth, on showing up as you are, on loving someone whole—shadows, scars, and all”
Source: The Art of Being Real: A Journey to Honest Living
“You, of course, are not I, and it must be from someplace in you, not me, that you serve. If you like symmetry, you must line things up. If you feel most satisfied composing plates away from your table, do it happily, for it will be genuine and full of what is yours to offer. Only remember what is plainly and always true: the act of serving fulfills itself.”
Source: An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
“Holography could prosper only in America, a country obsessed with realism, where, if a reconstruction is to be credible, it must be absolutely iconic, a perfect likeness, a “real” copy of the reality being represented.”
Source: Travels in Hyperreality
“Open your eyes, and trust your own unique way of receiving answers.”
Source: Spirit In Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2
“And how can we truly know ourselves unless we get still enough to listen to just ourself? Unless we give ourself the time and space to tune in.”
Source: Your Vivid Life: An Invitation to Live a Radically Authentic Life
“Life is a series of experiences that are ever so gently showing up to remind us who we are and what we need to walk us home. Whether it’s the gentle voice of the forest calling us to connect, or the pounding headache reminding us that we’ve been to hard on ourselves.”
Source: Your Vivid Life: An Invitation to Live a Radically Authentic Life
“Stop, be still for a moment, drop your shoulders, close your eyes and take a long deep breath.”
Source: Your Vivid Life: An Invitation to Live a Radically Authentic Life
“Authenticity is what makes a relatable person believable. It is what makes the relatability sustainable. Anyone can fake relatability for a time, but authenticity is what makes it real.”
Source: The Connectworker
“I think it's hard for people to understand what I mean when I say "I'm a guy's guy." I am in one way "becoming" a man and in another way I have always been one and I'm trying out all the ways to understand how I want to live that out, good and bad. Becoming a white man visibly is like a newly found superpower-like when Spider-Man suddenly realizes he can scale the sides of buildings but doesn't quite know how to control his own power and smashes up against a concrete wall on his first several attempts. He flails until he eventually knows how to use his power for good.”
Source: Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition
“Follow your heart, trust your instincts and allow yourself to do what feels best. Above all, trust your wisdom within.”
Source: Soul Wisdom: A Guide to Miraculous Living
“We may bury our soul's truth, but we can never really escape it.”
Source: Spirit In Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2
“Which mask to wear, which wear to mask.”
“Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.”
“We have reached a point in history where intellectual incapacitation feels like wholeness, and where forgetting trumps remembering.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“We must say "no" to what, in our heart, we don't want. We must say "no" to doing things out of obligation, thereby cheating those important to us of the purest expression of our love. We must say "no" to treating ourselves, our health, our needs as not as important as someone else's. We must say “no.”
“If someone is hating on me for being myself that's completely fine, because I love myself and respect myself enough to do what I want to do. Because I'm Worth It.”
“Manipulation. So nennen Menschen es, wenn ihnen die Stärke und das Charisma eines anderen gegen den Strich gehen.”
Source: Brennen
“I learned this from Robert McKee. A hack, he says, is a writer who second-guesses his audience. When the hack sits down to work, he doesn't ask himself what's in his own heart. He asks what the market is looking for.
The hack condescends to his audience. He thinks he's superior to them. The truth is, he's scared to death of them or, more accurately, scared of being authentic in front of them, scared of writing what he really feels or believes, what he himself thinks is interesting. He's afraid it won't sell. So he tries to anticipate what the market (a telling word) wants, then gives it to them.
In other words, the hack writes hierarchically. He writes what he imagines will play well in the eyes of others. He does not ask himself, What do I myself want to write? What do I think is important? Instead he asks, What's hot, what can I make a deal for?
The hack is like the politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.”
Source: The War Of Art
“من قال عليّ ما لم أقل فليتبوأ مقعده من النار
Whoever ascribes to me what I have not said then let him occupy his seat in Hell-fire! (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 3, #109)”
“It happens the second you leave the reservation. Not for a vacation. Not for a resort where they speak English and bring you drinks with little umbrellas. The world stops being a globe sitting on a teacher’s desk and becomes a living, breathing, bleeding animal. You see how big it is. You see how terrifyingly small you are.”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“Don’t be a sapiosexual, be a sapiosensual. This is why I say I consider myself a sapiosensual (a term I just made up) because I DON’T LOOK FOR INTELLIGENCE IN A PERSON, I LOOK FOR SOUL, DEPTH, PASSION, VULNERABILITY AND SENSUALITY. All these equates to AUTHENTICITY to me. So, yes, I’m probably snobbish too, I judge a person on how I feel about their authenticity.”
“If you can't read the room, you're just talking. Real influence starts when you stop performing and start paying attention.”
Source: Connecting Like A PRO®: Unleash Your Superpower
“Children, like plants and flowers, are organic. We grow at different rates and have different needs and that's ok.”
Source: The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
“When we are driven by ego and a relentless need to succeed, it’s easy to blindly neglect the relationships, self-care and truth that will create joy and authentic fulfillment in our lives.”
Source: Worthy: The POWER of Wholeness
“The truth does not need a number of supporters for authenticity. One person among the lot can be the only truthful out of the ten; 11 people out of 12 may be on the truthful side. However, the truth is the truth irrespective of how many people like to embrace it!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“You don’t need to exaggerate, hype, or over-optimize your message. You just need to mean it.”
Source: Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won
“We might forget that the simplest motions of our lives can help us transcend suffering and give birth to beauty—sending out into the world something brand new.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“Instead of holding on tight or trying to fix what is broken, we can let life be what it is and simply fold it into our imaginings.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“When in doubt, listen to your body. When something is most helpful to us on our own individual journeys, our bodies often relax. We might even feel something shift, as if we’ve become lighter.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“Resistance can represent a yearning to lovingly get to know parts of ourselves or our stories that we often avoid.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“In those rare moments in between all the busyness of our lives when we let our guard down and forget to block the dam, when we accidentally grab the torn envelope to jot down what we’ve heard (half wondering if we’ve gone mad), something leaps. Personally, I think it’s our heart, leaping for joy like when a loved one returns home after being away for too long.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“When we hear our inner voice, we return home. Home to our musings. Home to our imperfections. Home to our craziness and confusion. Home to inspiration. Home to our own unique rhythm. Home to something greater. Home to flow.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“It is amidst those fragments that leap in and out of our lives when we are busy with more important things, like making sure everything is perfect, buttering up to try to win their approval, and trying to be who we think we are supposed to be, that pure gold arrives, frequently disguised as an intruder, and changes everything.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“I believe we all reach a moment in life when we know we need to move beyond where we are.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“At some point, we decide it’s time do to something about our yearnings, to share and live life as who we really are, to accept joy, let go of struggle, and have our lives start flowing instead.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“The True Self is an artist.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice