Quotes about Authenticity

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.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.