When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts...

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most...

Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life; it is what gives meaning to life.

I live wherever you are cos honestly there’s no better place to call home

Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels...

I can be a better me than anyone can.

You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. That would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet, you can turn that into a career.

Authenticity is the gap between your thoughts and your actions. The smaller the gap, the more genuine the lifestyle.

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

Have you ever taken yourself a bit too seriously, thinking that who you are is actually defined by what you look like, how much talent you have (or don’t have), how well known you are...

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it — a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely...

It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively–which means to live authentically–is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in...

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.

We can’t turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we...

The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.

It’s our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

It’s not odd these days to hear politicians trumpeting their own authenticity, a claim that an earlier day would have considered self-cancelling. But when Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum say “I’m authentic,” they’re...

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky...

I have never seen a heavyweight champion apologize for a knockout

The one thing I have that nobody else has or can duplicate is my sound. The sound of my voice. The sound of my life. Others may say similar things but they can’t say them...

The more of me I be,The clearer I can see.

We believe that it is the job of each of us to step outside of ourselves, look beyond the shadows, and seek reality. If we hope to present an authentic self to the world, it...

You are like an ocean: quietly ebbing and flowing to the rhythm of life, but wildly expansive and profoundly powerful. You are boundless. You are whole. Your quietness is your strength. Your depth is your...

Think about the word mould for a moment. A mould is a device into which one crams and smashes something until it becomes the shape that they desire. Don’t spend your life letting other people...

Being true to ourselves is about having courage to define our own version of what it is to live a successful life.

True strength is knowing that you don’t have to be strong every single second of the day.

Be wary of a self-professed “nice guy”. Anyone who is always going around saying they are “just trying to be nice” are most often, anything but nice. -If you’re truly kind and loving, you don’t...

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as “seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

We sacrifice our potential because we do not know that we are pure potential.

We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe...

Many of us live in denial of who we truly are because we fear losing someone or something-and there are times that if we don’t rock the boat, too often the one we lose is...

The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. (“I’m Dangerous Tonight”)

Within the depths of authenticity lives integrity; waiting for our return. When we arrive, we are met with effortless joy, abundant living, peace and wholeness–nothing lacking, nothing broken. This is soul equanimity, the state of...

Let others see their own greatness when looking in your eyes.

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that’s beautiful to create something that is fake?

It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.

Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven’t known authenticity in their own life.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

It’s not what you lift, it’s where you carry it.

Enjoy your own authentic stupidity rather than strive vainly to be wise.

Authenticity was the key to any deception. Sometimes authenticity was disgusting.

True, sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that’s why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit

Often misconstrued, authenticity is not about being an open book, revealing every detail of yourself without rhyme or reason. It is simply the act of openly and courageously seeing what needs to be seen, saying...

Authenticity is a continual process of building self-awareness, a journey through which we acknowledge both our strengths and our limitations, and come to identify a noble purpose.

I am not a genuine woman, but I am not interested in genuineness.

To be effective, we have to slow down the speed of our thoughts and focus on managing our attention.

Don’t be afraid to be who you are, no matter who that person might be.

ghost write” your way through an interview? Hence the reason I stress speaking in your own voice. You may think you are not perfect, but your authenticity will speak in volumes to your followers and...

What it means to be authentic:- to be more concerned with truth than opinions- to be sincere and not pretend- to be free from hypocrisy: “walk your talk”- to know who you are and to...