Quotes about Authenticity

God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

I just sing what I'm feeling at the time and hope my fans will like that and appreciate that.

Social Networking should never replace face-to-face time.

Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.