Your greatest path of influence is love.

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn’t what you get for it, but what you become...

come hither” to be reason enough to go.

We could not be fulfilled if we weren’t inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage...

I now inhabit a life I don’t deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn’t end any time soon

Authenticity is imperative, it brings forth respect,trust, love and confidence. This simply means you’ll be respected, trusted, loved by many people and you’ll be confident enough to take a first step towards your dreams. It...

I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.

Don’t try to please others at the expense of your values and your integrity. At the end of the day, you want to like yourself when you look in a mirror.

If it took your authentic voice to get you there, it will take your authentic voice to keep you there. Your job is to keep listening.

As you become more aligned with the truth of who you are, the question of liking yourself goes away. It is a natural state of being.

Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human; it is just a way of taking responsibility for what one has already been given.

When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to takecare of ourselves.

I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.

Confused? Confusion is good. It’s an excellent place to learn something new from.

Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves...

The saying ‘flattery gets you everywhere’ appalls me. If you’re going to pay someone a compliment make sure it’s 100% genuine or not at all.-Flattery is deception and who wants to be lied to?

Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our lifestyle choices often reveal our values, or at least what we’d like people...

No matter how much you cry, the tears will dry. No matter how many nightmares, flashbacks, visions, or terrors you endure, they will pass. To weather these in order to find your true self and...

When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else’s to shield our fear.

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.