Quotes about Authenticity

anything you do in the dark. In other words, it's any act that you try to hide from others. So, what kind of person are you when the shades are drawn? That's really the question. "Integrity," as Dr. Werjonic used to say, "has no private life." But, of course, no one has complete integrity because everyone has things to hide. All of us act differently when no one is watching.

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.

My dreams had to be His dreams, the ones He placed in my heart. They couldn't be the ones I thought I should have, or needed for the purpose of making other people like me.

Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.

True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist nor can it be hidden where it truly does.

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.

...but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself that you can possibly see the difference between passion and real love.

Ritual observance without moral rectitude is worse than empty; it is a counterfeit religious coin with which a worshipper wishes to procure divine and human approval for behavior that deserves censure (see Isa. 58:3—7).

Instead, it's a change in our response to the Question, and being true to the insight means being open to how it revises the whole.

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.