Quotes about Authenticity
If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.
— Henry Cloud
What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.
— Beth Moore
It's as if they'd heard that there are values one is supposed to honor and this is what one does to honor them -- so they went through the motions, like ghosts pulled by some sort of distant echoes from a better age.
— Ayn Rand
Your house is made by its own needs. Those others are made by the need to impress. The determining motive of your house is in the house. The determining motive of the other is in the audience.
— Ayn Rand
I'm not going to help you pretend—by arguing with you—that the reality you're talking about is not what it is, that there's still a way to make it work and to save your neck. There isn't.
— Ayn Rand
You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running.
— Ayn Rand
You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge.
— Ayn Rand
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you — except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.
— Ayn Rand
When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.
— Barack Obama
Michelle was someone who started from the heart and not the head, from experience rather than abstractions.
— Barack Obama
There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, 'Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul's address
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
— Barbara Kingsolver