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.

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...

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.

Trying to be white? What the hell does that mean? I’ve never understood that. How could anyone be white when they aren’t white? Seems like a simple enough thing to prove, right? Hold out your...

If it’s convenient to love you, you’re lying to someone about who you are or what you need.

who”s on the planet you might have been? While this may seem like a bit of a paradoxi- cal tongue twister, it is the quintessential question that requires exploration if you are to follow your...

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

Historically, my lack of success; had a direct correlation with me silencing my authenticity. Summon the strength to stand in your truth.

Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.

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.

Looking with eyes of love is about not only looking, but seeing.

They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it.

When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel,...

I don’t rhyme about guns I ain’t shotHoes I ain’t caughtOr shit I ain’t bought.

To reclaim our natural power and this birthright of real magic, we must get naked and face ourselves.The truth of Who You Really Are is vast. It is genius. It crackles with electricity and sensuality...

As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find...

Don’t just be a consumer, be a creator. Somewhere inside you is a masterpiece waiting to be exposed.

If you find yourself criticizing other people, you’re probably doing it out of Resistance. When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our...

who are we?” is critical. Knowing who we are is the key to elevating our capacities and performance.

I’m a thousand different people. Every one is real.

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic.” – Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014

Keep it real … wear the “no photoshop seal

Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court?...

Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing...

But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth,...

How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism = authenticity while simultaneously writing male characters with conveniently modern values?The habit of authors...

Don’t be afraid to be authentic, show up in the world as you truly are.Be as you mean to be, but be light with it. Love it, give it, share it, laugh at it, walk...

A man could not be prevented from making himself a big wax doll, and kissing it. But if the man were to come with the doll and sit before a man in love, and begin...

Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity

We all have an inner intuition for authenticity, for matched up internal and external truth. When we detect this, we feel immediate comfort. We know truth when we hear it.

True creation requires authority and authenticity.

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the...

Authenticity is a choice we make about who we want to be that inspires our greater aliveness.

It’s a funny thing, how it works…The moment we stop trying so hard to be someone, we become ourselves–only what was there all along, waiting and peeking out from behind all the masks we wore.And...

For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.

Polarities of the ‘authentic’ vs. the ‘inauthentic’ are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by which the self allows or...

In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternatively to attack those pieties for no other reason than the visibility such an attack will generate, when...

Without authenticity, we are only a poor imitation of someone else.

He was the only authentic German. You might like him. Being a police officer, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the need to put an end to the lives of the perverse when sex crimes go too...

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

Our imperfections are what create authentic connections with one another.

Only fake tears last forever.

It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better...