Authentic Life Quotes

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Socrates

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

Brené Brown

Real, Self, Choices

"The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2010.

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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Bernard Baruch

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri

Love, Inspirational, Sympathy

"Ben Okri salutes Jeremy Corbyn in poetry with A New Dream of Politics" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2015.

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An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Prayer, Inspirational Life, Everyday

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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The authentic self is the soul made visable.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Yoga, Self, Soul

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When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

Anais Nin

Being Yourself, Acceptance, Unique

"Winter of Artifice". Book by Anais Nin, 1939.

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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Life, Smile, Graduation

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

May Sarton

Inspirational, Dream, Real

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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

Honesty, Voice, Never Quit

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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

Inspirational, Wisdom, Real

"Are You the One for Me? Knowing Who's Right and Avoiding Who's Wrong". Book by Barbara De Angelis, 1992.

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An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.

Alan Cohen

Choices, Creative, Doe

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Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here: to love and live fully, to be curious about all things, and to live a compassionate - and passionate - authentic life.

Mira Bartok

Moving, Passionate, Why We Are Here

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...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Beautiful, Thinking Of You, Art

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What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

Joseph Campbell

Life, Respect, Loss

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Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.

Bernie Siegel

Strong, Heart, Mean

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It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.

Adyashanti

Reality, Enlightenment, Bliss

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A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path.

Gay Hendricks

Heart, Creativity, Successful

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Things happen to help you get rid of the parts of yourself that aren't you; to help you be more real and more yourself, not like everyone else; to help you lead a more authentic life; and ultimately to help you discover who you really are.

Mira Kirshenbaum

Being Yourself, Real, Helping

Mira Kirshenbaum (2005). “Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives”, p.22, Harmony

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When you learn what you can live without, you are able to ask life for the very best because you possess the gift of discernment. You are able to create an authentic life because you are able to make conscious choices.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Inspirational, Choices, Able

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The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

Anne Lamott

Believe, Work Out, Movement

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But how to know the falsity of death? How can we know there is no death? Until we know that, our fear of death will not go either. Until we know the falsity of death, our lives will remain false. As long as there is fear of death, there cannot be authentic life. As long as we tremble with the fear of death, we cannot summon the capacity to live our lives. One can live only when the shadow of death has disappeared forever. How can a frightened and trembling mind live? And when death seems to be approaching every second, how is it possible to live? How can we live?

Rajneesh

Death, Long, Forever

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Who am I?” “What is the purpose of my life?” These questions arise spontaneously throughout our lives, either unbidden or through conscious intent. Anyone who wishes to live an authentic life must answer these questions, regardless of whether they believe in the existence of the soul or practice a religion. If these queries remain unanswered, life will more than likely remain superficial and empty, in spite of any material abundance. If you wish to make the soul's journey, then I suggest you ask yourself these questions relentlessly and ruthlessly, and listen carefully.

Ilchi Lee

Believe, Journey, Practice

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"You're All That" goes back to really building a life from the core of who you're. And all of those things are layers. That's just your authentic life.

Paula White

Layers, Building, Core

Source: culteducation.com

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I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live."

Charlize Theron

Mom, Growing Up, Mistake

Source: wwd.com

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