Being Authentic Quotes

• The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Privilege, Introvert

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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• To find yourself, think for yourself.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Attitude, Business

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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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• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Authenticity

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.60, Penguin

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• I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Leadership, Inspiration, Self

  "Oprah At Facebook: Incredible" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2011.

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiration, Stealing Things, Imagination

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• Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Film Music, Bodies Of Water

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Bodies Of Water, Film Music

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• Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 20, 2015

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• Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Personality

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Being Yourself, Destiny, People

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• All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being.

  Anthony Evans

  Real, Singing, Emotion

  "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview With Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

  Yelawolf

  Artist, White, People

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