ON AUTHENTICITY

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. - Barbara de Angelis

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.  - Coco Chanel

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something. - Meredith Monk

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing. - David O. Russell

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave. - John Milius

This above all:
To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

 - Hamlet, Shakespeare

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a man has. - Hubert Humphrey

Best keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

The authentic self is soul made visible. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. - Alan Cohen

To be nobody but myself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me somebody else-means to fight the hardest battle any human can fight, and never stop fighting. - e.e. cummings

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. - C.G. Jung

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free. - Eckhart Tolle

No one man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sometimes to be authentic, we need to risk our popularity. Orozco

Authentic people never run out of creative ideas to live otherwise than the present. Orozco

Authentic people know how to disguise their hatred but never their happiness when the situation warrants it.

Some people refuse to be authentically happy about other people's luck or fortune; they disguise their feelings because they feel so competitive with them. How sad. Orozco

To be authentic does not mean one should be a braggart, a disrespectful fellow, or a curse-spitting fool. One never stops being a gentle lady or a gentleman under any circumstance except when provoked by harassers. Orozco

To be authentic is to perform the duties one has been tasked with by the people. Orozco

Not to be authentic is for the official to steal, to rob, to fool the people who have voted .them. Orozco