Authentic Selves Quotes

#1. Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

Mary Pipher

#2. So often we wait for the climate and conditions in life to be perfect before we feel safe enough to step forward, trust, and be our authentic selves. What we don't realize is that in order to create the ideal climate we are waiting for, we must be authentic first.

Sonia Choquette

#3. We [Facebook] really believe in enabling people to be their authentic selves on the web, and enabling people to communicate directly with each other in a very personal way.

Sheryl Sandberg

#4. Inspiration is the quickest shortcut to discovering and practicing embracing our authentic selves.

Elaina Marie

#5. The pressure to be quintessentially black in every moment, whether it comes from the outside world or is self-imposed, keeps black people from being our authentic selves.

Justin Simien

#6. Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#7. Life is not a test administered by ourselves or a higher authority, and we're not in form to learn lessons. We're here to thrive, to celebrate being our authentic selves until it literally kills us.

S. Kelley Harrell

#8. Or we may be caught in a cycle of frustration because we realize we are split from our authentic selves but cannot figure out how to cultivate and nourish our relationship with ourselves.

Massimilla Harris

#9. When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.

Steven Pressfield

#10. Guys are really lucky. We become our authentic selves the older we get.

Rob Lowe

#11. The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

#12. Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.

Stephan A. Hoeller

#13. Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

Kathleen Norris

#14. Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#15. We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.

Brene Brown

#16. The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen.

Bryant McGill

#17. May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

Pope Francis

#18. In the sense of worldly advantage, it no longer signified whether people thought of him as having been an authentic man of virtue. There was no more political power or influence
to be gained from maintaining that identity. But to him it still mattered.

Marisa Linton

#19. Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith.

Pope Benedict XVI

#20. I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.

Gary Zukav

#21. I don't trust people to accept who I am in process. I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world - so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

Donald Miller

#22. Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do ... tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.

Ken Robinson

#23. If you want to trust yourself, make decisions that are
grounded in your authentic principles. Don't lie. Don't
cheat. Don't push others down to obtain success.

Richie Norton

#24. The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good.

Pope Benedict XVI

#25. I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.

Karen Gillan

#26. It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.

Graham Spanier

#27. We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#28. The most important therapeutic capacity is the ability to be present with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being,in our essence and authentic self, in the meditative quality within, through which we can meet another person. It is to meet that which is already perfect within a person.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#29. I've never ... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#30. Under Arab rule, Palestine had always been a somnolent desert land that could have sustained no authentic twentieth-century Arab awakening. Palestine without Jews is a not a nation but a naqba.

George Gilder

#31. You can't make someone a Soul Mate ... either they are or they're not.-Serena Jade author of Charismatic Connection: The Authentic Soul Mate Experience

Serena Jade

#32. 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

#33. With so many people in the world i am confident in saying, if you connect with someone on a soul level you dont take them for granted.

Nikki Rowe

#34. If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#35. Your words don't match your vibe,
& im trusting my gut this time.

Nikki Rowe

#36. We can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#37. Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

John Nash

#38. If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

Lana Del Rey

#39. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

Brene Brown

#40. He tried to keep on the right side of power, tried to be loyal to so many things that he himself couldn't tell which one of his selves was the authentic, if any.

Kiran Desai

#41. For me, far more important than whether teachers have calm voices is how authentic they are - how much of their true selves they allow into their teaching.

Becky W. Thompson

#42. Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.

Nikki Rowe

#43. Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

Andrea Dworkin

#44. You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!

Toni Sorenson

#45. It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

Alan Alda

#46. I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. ( ... ) Boredom opens up the space, for new engagements. Without boredom, no creativity. If you are not bored, you just stupidly enjoy the situation in which you are.

Slavoj Zizek

#47. Forced relations between two things that superficially appear foreign create a new, instantaneous state. Authentic poetry asks nothing more. A kinship completely nonexistent moments ago was created by the poet's authority, just as it might have been created in life by the authority of chance.

Odysseus Elytis

#48. There are interviewers who try to trip up the candidate," says Hanold. "If you make people do intellectual gymnastics, you're not getting their true self. There is no right answer to any question I ask. I want an authentic response." To

Ethan F. Becker

#49. A fake is a copy, a duplicate, a facsimile of an original. The professional coach is authentic - the real deal.

Michael J. Marx

#50. Be authentic to yourself, but if you must cheat, cheat yourself out of the lies the world created.

Robert M. Drake

#51. The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have passed, .. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience.

Craig Detweiler

#52. Authentic faith cannot help but act.

Beth Moore

#53. No, it wasn't the words so much as the fact that she used an authentic label maker to send me the message. Damn, I felt an instant connection to this woman

Morgan Parker

#54. The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..

Adyashanti

#55. The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.

Bryant McGill

#56. Authentic power shares power with others.

Jacqueline A. Bussie

#57. There are lots of authentic, moving characters in so-called systems novels, just as there are certainly deep structural ideas in some character-driven novels.

Dana Spiotta

#58. Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Douglas Coupland

#59. Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.

Dalai Lama

#60. No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.

David Klinghoffer

#61. She's good to common folk. They make her feel authentic. She covets their approval in small doses.

James Ellroy

#62. Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

Shannon L. Alder

#63. A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

Nancy Gibbs

#64. My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

Ann Demeulemeester

#65. Authentic success is being so grateful for the many blessings bestowed on you and yours that you can share your portion with others.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#66. Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.

Aaron Staton

#67. When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves
that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.

N. T. Wright

#68. We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be.

Fennel Hudson