Top 46 Authentic Living Quotes
#1. There is a difference between working hard to create a life that truly serves you
and working hard to create a life that you've been told you should want.
Vironika Tugaleva
#2. Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
Seth Godin
#3. Authentic Christianity is not just about keeping and protecting the faith and keeping the rules. It is even more than living to deepen your relationship with Jesus. Authentic Christianity, the real deal, is about embracing all of these important elements.
Joseph Stowell
#4. When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.
John Green
#5. Dear God, help us to be a living example of being Christ-centered. Purify the areas in our lives where we allowed the world and enemy to gain access. Please direct us into authentic truth so that all may see You in us.
Dana Arcuri
#6. You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.
Shannon L. Alder
#7. It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.
Dawn Gluskin
#8. Bliss and joy come in moments of living our highest truth
moments when what we do is consistent with our archetypal depths. It's when we are most authentic and trusting, and feel that whatever we are doing, which can be quite ordinary, is nonetheless sacred.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#9. If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself,
"How can I participate in this community and still be who I am?
Gina Greenlee
#10. An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#11. Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.
Gina Greenlee
#12. A person who magnanimously exhibits their passion allows us to witness their authentic personality whereas a cold and calculating personality remains inscrutable.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#13. If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer - if we are unfaithful to true self.
Parker J. Palmer
#14. She's a gypsy girl living in a materialistic world,
Unattached to most things but in love with life itself.
Nikki Rowe
#15. Living a spiritual life may not be easy. It demands total authenticity. It brings you to dance to a unique song that only you can hear fully, and sometimes you dance alone because no others can hear the music.
Debra Moffitt
#16. Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.
Steven Furtick
#17. It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
Adyashanti
#18. Simple living is about being authentic and living an examined life and if you've thought about the values you want to live by, be confident and stick with them no matter what others around you are doing.
Rhonda Hetzel
#19. Consult as you may your masters; their musings. But look within when it's time for the choosing.
Garry Fitchett
#20. We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.
Naomi Wolf
#21. In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.
Roy Bennett
#23. When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.
Shannon L. Alder
#24. When it comes to loving people, let's not allow it to be something we do on the side. Let's make it a lifestyle. Whether we are at the gas station, picking up groceries, even waiting to get our car repaired, there is always an open opportunity to love someone in need.
Jarrid Wilson
#25. If you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want.
Roy T. Bennett
#26. When we limit ourselves by being the person we "should" be, we limit our aliveness. We may achieve success but not fulfillment because we are not living out all the important truths about ourselves, truths we need to slow down to excavate.
Henna Inam
#27. Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is - without contemplation. Here we find the possibility of freedom - of just being - living as our authentic self. We are our true nature. We are one and whole.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#29. I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.
Peter Wright
#32. Self worth is not measured by what you have, no matter how full your life is. Rather, it comes from what you are, how authentically you're really living your life, and how much you are willing to give.
Shannon L. Alder
#33. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion
Brennan Manning
#34. Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.
Billy Graham
#36. Authentic and free. The Gucci guilty woman is about living in the moment. She's a modern woman, someone who really owns herself and her sensuality. It's supposed to be a very empowering and sensual fragrance.
Evan Rachel Wood
#37. The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.
Chris Pine
#39. The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.
Ralph Marston
#40. Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.
Rebecca West
#41. Isn't it interesting how much we dislike the days that allow us to enjoy our weekends? The days that pay. If you don't like Monday's, you're not living your authentic life! You're in the wrong job! What do you really want to do with your life ... ?
James A. Murphy
#42. Man is that which has still much before it. He is repeatedly transformed in his work and by it. [...] The authentic in man and in the world is potential, waiting, living in fear of being frustrated, living in hope of succeeding.
Ernst Bloch
#43. I honor the divine on a daily basis, but I want to know that the greatest magick in my life is living authentically with what I have and can do.
Thomm Quackenbush
#45. Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.
Richie Norton
#46. Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.
Bill Hybels
