Quotes About Authentic Self

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Get naked with your truth, offering the world your greatest gift: your authentic self.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#5. The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

Ayn Rand

#6. Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#7. Bring the best of your Authentic Self to every opportunity.

John Jantsch

#8. Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

Iyanla Vanzant

#9. Passion will always move you in the direction of your authentic self.

Danielle LaPorte

#10. What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#11. One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.

John Darnielle

#12. 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

#13. Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.

Michael Beckwith

#14. Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!

Sheri Fink

#15. Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

Kristin Hannah

#16. 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.

Brennan Manning

#17. I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.

Debbie Ford

#18. Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

David Rakoff

#19. You entered into a Socratic dialogue in order to change; the object of the exercise was to create a new, more authentic self.

Karen Armstrong

#20. Don't believe everything you think. Our minds are thought-creating machines. Most of these thoughts are fear-based. Our authentic self has the power to pick the thoughts that best serve us and those we lead.

Henna Inam

#21. The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. When you become your authentic self, fear disappears and abundance manifests.

Shane Reynolds

#23. The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

Paul Guilfoyle

#24. There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.

Ayn Rand

#25. I don't think anyone's sexuality needs to be a public issue other than to give others the confidence to love themselves wholeheartedly and to be their true, authentic self without any shame.

Crystal Bowersox

#26. Go deep and live life from your truth within, and watch your most authentic self, full of love, peace, and beauty manifest out into the world.

D.S. Clark

#27. I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they're going to interpret that and what it means to them.

Anita Hill

#28. Dare yourself to believe in your creativity, wherever it may lead you. Trust that where it leads, is exactly where you're supposed to be. Your authentic self knows where you're headed. Don't wrestle with Spirit, collaborate with it.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#29. Being your authentic self reassures the people you meet.

Sam Owen

#30. I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

Katie Couric

#31. I feel inauthentic at a party ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

Susan Sontag

#32. There is no wrong way to express and embody your most authentic self!

Meredith Russo

#33. Embracing your authentic self is medicine for the soul.

April WIlliams

#34. Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving ... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God ...

Pope Benedict XVI

#35. I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.

Idina Menzel

#36. It's ok to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to live out your most authentic self.

Nikki Rowe

#37. When you step into your power and your true authentic self, you shine. You shine so brightly that the world tries to keep up.

Shannon Kaiser

#38. The authentic self is the soul made visible.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#39. Nothing is more attractive than being your authentic self!

Dawn Gluskin

#40. You cannot experience the fullness of your authentic self or life when you live to avoid hurt. You will never know the joy of love or the peaceful satisfaction of being loved if you hide from hurt.

Iyanla Vanzant

#41. When you are your authentic self, you fulfill the possibilities that dwell inside your soul.

April WIlliams

#42. Man is meant to be a success. Each of us, he said, is unique and endowed with potentials unlike those of others. Success comes in finding your authentic self, the person you truly are, and becoming that person, tapping all of that untapped potential.

George Sheehan

#43. Be your authentic self! Who you truly are; not who you learned to be.

Deborah Day

#44. Being your authentic self exudes a quiet confidence.

Sam Owen

#45. Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one's authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.

John Bradshaw

#46. Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks
we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.

Parker J. Palmer

#47. The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

Bryant McGill

#48. I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Oprah Winfrey

#49. There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self.

Ralph Smart

#50. The more you recover your authentic self, the more your destiny will unfold before your eyes. Just keep doing your inner work - that's the most essential thing.

Robin S. Sharma

#51. The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

Rajneesh

#52. Authenticity is our natural state of being. The authentic self is a state of being where we are centered, creative, adaptive, and inspired.

Henna Inam

#53. The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#54. The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are.

Vironika Tugaleva

#55. Love accepts a human being as she is. Love creates the freedom for a human being to be who she is. Love creates the relaxation, which helps a person to relax into her own inner being, into her own authentic self. Love allows us to appreciate the beautiful being we already are.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#56. The real me: A woman who continues to blossom into her authentic self.

Sandra Vischer

#57. In a cult, you have two identities: your cult identity and your authentic self. Most of the time I operated from my cult identity, which was pliant, submissive and obedient. But when I was pushed to the point where it felt like my survival was at stake, my authentic self came to the fore.

Carolyn Jessop

#58. Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

Don Coppersmith

#59. Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.

Carol Leifer

#60. 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

#61. 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

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

Fennel Hudson

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. in a nutshell, the key of the authentic Kriya Yoga: "Breath control is self-control. Breath mastery is self-mastery. Breathlessness stage is deathlessness stage.

P. Hariharananda

#67. You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.

Rajneesh

#68. Our work is not to become unique. We are unique. Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure and to allow the inner whisper that says "come hither" to be reason enough to go.

Vironika Tugaleva

#69. One day you will be able to look over all the disaster and heartbreak and feel ok with it, today mighten be the day but one day you will.

Nikki Rowe

#70. 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

#71. Stop thinking you're doing it all wrong. Your path doesn't look like anybody else's because it can't, it shouldn't, and it won't.

Eleanor Brownn

#72. We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#73. For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.

Ken Wilber

#74. In keeping with something called self-determination theory, which holds that human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others.

Sebastian Junger

#75. If you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want.

Roy T. Bennett

#76. Don't dilute your core message burning in your spirit just to satisfy the masses

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#77. 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

#78. To return to our authenticity, we have to let go of all that we are not. We recognize and let go of the judgments, fears, and "shoulds" that keep us stuck.

Henna Inam

#79. Perhaps your definition of your self-system lacks authentic boundaries. You've erected a precarious structure of personality on unconscious factors over which you have no control. That's why you feel threatened by me.

Philip K. Dick

#80. Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney.

Ron Fournier

#81. An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.

Lee Ellis

#82. Re-claim your power, don't you dare shrink your worth for someone elses glory.
They'll attempt to sabotage your greatnes but it is you that will feel the aftermath of your unwritten story.

Nikki Rowe

#83. Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

Shannon L. Alder

#84. Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all the world was once a stage, it has now become a reality TV show: we mere players are not just aware of the camera; we mug for it.

Peggy Orenstein

#85. To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.

Joshua L. Goldberg

#86. What may appear to be the wrong way by other people's standards may indeed be the perfectly inspired path by which you will arrive at clarity of mind and a more authentic expression of yourself.

Linda Cull

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#88. 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

#89. There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.

Theodore Dalrymple

#90. We sacrifice our potential because we do not know that we are pure potential.

Vironika Tugaleva

#91. Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial.

T.F. Hodge

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self.

Vironika Tugaleva

#95. 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

#96. Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

Alanis Morissette

#97. Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

Billy Graham

#98. I define success as being the best, authentic me that I can be.

Leeky Behrman

#99. To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference.

Vironika Tugaleva

#100. Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.

Simone De Beauvoir