#authenticity

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“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it is having the courage to show up and be seen.”

— Brene Brown

“In most of our human relationships we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight but real healing drops the costume”

— Ram Dass

#healing #identity #authenticity

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone”

— Schopenhauer

#solitude #authenticity #self

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

— Frederick Douglass

#self-esteem #authenticity

“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

#gratitude #authenticity #self

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

— Bob Dylan

#success #freedom #authenticity

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#passion #path #reverence

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#authenticity #individuality #courage

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself”

— Jim Morrison

#friendship #freedom #authenticity

“Your time is limited, do not waste it living someone elses life.”

— Steve Jobs

#time #authenticity #living

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it is having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.”

— Brene Brown

#vulnerability #courage #authenticity

“Be who you are and be that well.”

— Francis de Sales

#gratitude #authenticity #excellence

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”

— William Blake

#authenticity #flying #self-reliance

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone and if he does not love solitude he will not love freedom”

— Seneca

#solitude #freedom #authenticity

“Each family member has a face that they show to the world and an inner face they reveal only at home.”

— Anais Nin

#family #intimacy #authenticity

“Everything I do is for the seventeen year old version of myself”

— Virgil Abloh

#creativity #youth #authenticity

“Fashion is about dressing according to what is fashionable but style is more about being yourself even through failures”

— Carolina Herrera

#failure #style #authenticity

“Your time is limited so do not waste it living someone elses life.”

— Steve Jobs

#abundance #authenticity #time

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#authenticity #despair #identity

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #becoming #authenticity

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

— Herman Melville

#originality #failure #authenticity

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

#self #authenticity

“I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live”

— Socrates

#authenticity #speech

“True belonging does not require you to change who you are it requires you to be who you are with compassion”

— Brene Brown

#compassion #belonging #authenticity

“There is nothing to writing all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”

— Ernest Hemingway

#passion #writing #authenticity

“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself”

— Coco Chanel

#beauty #authenticity #self

“Every child is an artist the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”

— Picasso

#empowerment #creativity #authenticity

“Your time is limited so do not waste it living someone elses life”

— Steve Jobs

#empowerment #authenticity #time

“Every good painter paints what he is”

— Jackson Pollock

#beauty #authenticity #painting

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”

— Lao Tzu

#nature #authenticity #self

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

— André Gide

#love #authenticity

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You dont need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#self-acceptance #beauty #authenticity

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#passion #authenticity #despair

“Between your birth and your death, there is the life you lived and the life you wished you had lived. Make them the same.”

— Thiruvalluvar

#life #regret #purpose

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#empowerment #authenticity #accomplishment

“Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone elses life.”

— Steve Jobs

#authenticity #time #presence

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are within your family circle.”

— Joseph Campbell

#family #authenticity #privilege

“To go wrong in ones own way is better than to go right in someone elses. At least you are at peace with your choices.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#peace #authenticity #choices

“Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience or convictions.”

— Dag Hammarskjold

#peace #authenticity #conviction

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”

— D.H. Lawrence

#passion #expression #authenticity

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

— Maya Angelou

#expression #stories #authenticity

“Your time is limited so dont waste it living someone elses life.”

— Steve Jobs

#time #authenticity #purpose

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter in your family wont mind and those who mind dont matter.”

— Dr. Seuss

#family #authenticity #acceptance

“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

#happiness #authenticity #self-acceptance

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake”

— Henry David Thoreau

#passion #dreams #authenticity

“Be yourself everyone else is already taken”

— Oscar Wilde

#empowerment #authenticity #uniqueness

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are”

— Joseph Campbell

#empowerment #authenticity #self

“There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

— Christopher Morley

#success #freedom #authenticity

“This above all; to thine own self be true.”

— William Shakespeare

#authenticity #truth

“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”

— Emerson

#action #integrity #authenticity

“You do not have to be a genius you just have to be yourself”

— Austin Kleon

#passion #authenticity #self

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings”

— William Blake

#passion #authenticity #ambition

“Be yourself because everyone else is already taken. Authentic creativity flows from authenticity.”

— Oscar Wilde

#creativity #authenticity #self

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”

— Rumi

#hope #myth #authenticity

“All works no matter what or by whom painted are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles unless they are painted after life”

— Caravaggio

#beauty #life #authenticity

“Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else life.”

— Steve Jobs

#motivation #authenticity #time

“We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be”

— Kurt Vonnegut

#friendship #authenticity #pretense

“When two people relate to each other authentically the between is where god dwells”

— Martin Buber

#friendship #authenticity #divine

“True belonging doesnt require you to change who you are it requires you to be who you are and that is healing”

— Brene Brown

#healing #belonging #authenticity

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

— Joseph Campbell

#karma #authenticity #self

“Transformed people transform people through the power of authentic compassion”

— Richard Rohr

#compassion #transformation #authenticity

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#solitude #freedom #authenticity

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#karma #action #authenticity

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Unknown

#acceptance #self-love #beauty

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

— Aristotle

#friendship #authenticity #depth

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#life #courage #authenticity

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#happiness #integrity #harmony

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

— Gautama Buddha

#failure #integrity #wisdom

“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.”

— Marge Kennedy

#family #authenticity #comfort

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

— Khalil Gibran

#karma #giving #authenticity

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you unfold your own myth”

— Rumi

#spirituality #myth #authenticity

“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”

— Deng Ming-Dao

#acceptance #nature #gentleness

“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the wonder of our presence”

— Mark Nepo

#healing #authenticity #presence

“Your time is limited, dont waste it living someone elses life.”

— Steve Jobs

#authenticity #time #purpose

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the simplest and greatest accomplishment”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#simplicity #authenticity #world

“Every good painter paints what he is inside”

— Jackson Pollock

#creativity #authenticity #painting

“He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.”

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#passion #honesty #character

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.”

— Jim Morrison

#freedom #authenticity

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— E.E. Cummings

#growth #authenticity

“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to”

— Georgia OKeeffe

#passion #authenticity #art

“Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself not comparing yourself to others”

— Martin Seligman

#passion #authenticity #growth

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation”

— Herman Melville

#empowerment #originality #authenticity

“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

— Hermann Hesse

#inner-peace #sanctuary #authenticity

“To go wrong in ones own way is better than to go right in someone elses.”

— Dostoevsky

#authenticity #mistakes #individuality

“To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard. True creativity is unconcerned with audience.”

— Allen Ginsberg

#creativity #voice #authenticity

“Real things dont need to try to be truthful they just need to be”

— Peter Zumthor

#creativity #authenticity #truth

“Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men or else all the obligations in the world cannot create it.”

— Hannah Arendt

#gratitude #innate #authenticity

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#solitude #freedom #authenticity

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are and extending compassion to all you meet”

— Joseph Campbell

#compassion #privilege #authenticity

“I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better”

— Plutarch

#friendship #authenticity #honesty

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white neither need you do anything but be yourself”

— Zhuangzi

#resilience #authenticity #self acceptance

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

#life #authenticity #awareness

“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”

— Vivekananda

#karma #authenticity #faith

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”

— Maya Angelou

#simplicity #expression #authenticity

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings of creativity.”

— William Blake

#creativity #soaring #authenticity

“I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.”

— Queen Elizabeth I

#nature #authenticity #love

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