Quotes on Living Authentically
The Freedom to be YOU
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Here are a few quotes I've collected over the years to inspire you to live a life authentic to you:
Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.
— Unknown
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
To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.
― Victoria Moran
Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.
— Stacey Charter
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
— Eckhart Tolle
I’d estimate at least half of my frustrations with others are actually frustrations with myself for failing to set clear boundaries and stand by them.
— James Clear
Love yourself and love those around you. Take care of yourself and take care of those around you. Lead by example. Give love. Be a part of everything that is great in the world, and in turn there is more love and greatness in the world! Change the world!
— Jeffrey I. Moore
If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.
— Emma Watson
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.
— Gail Sheehy
Don't you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are.
— Jo Blackwell-Preston
Imagine if you will being on your death bed – And standing around your bed – the ghosts of the ideas, the dreams, the abilities, the talents given to you by life.
And that you for whatever reason, you never acted on those ideas, you never pursued that dream, you never used those talents, we never saw your leadership, you never used your voice, you never wrote that book.
And there they are standing around your bed looking at you with large angry eyes saying we came to you, and only you could have given us life! Now we must die with you forever.
The question is – if you die today what ideas, what dreams, what abilities, what talents, what gifts, would die with you?
— Les Brown
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
— Honoré de Balzac
What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The amount of light you emit is not based on how positively you think, it's about how much of your darkness you can accept.
— Kyle Cease
If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.
— Angelina Jolie
Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
— Howard Washington Thurman
The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are… and knows what they were created to do.
— Bishop T.D. Jakes
Our entire life … consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. ― Jean Anouih
Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires that are in alignment with core beliefs generate powerful actions. Like a wave that draws from the depths of the ocean, actions connected to your authentic self are more likely to manifest your intentions.
― David Simon
Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.
― Simon Sinek
Live the most vividly decorated temporary life that you can. Not just physically, but emotionally, spiritually and intellectually. Don’t be afraid of bright colors or new sounds or big love or risky decisions or strange experiences or weird endeavors or sudden changes or even failure.
― Elizabeth Gilbert
Freckles, scars, hair and flesh, why do so many see it as a mess? Frightened we try to hide from it all, why can't we embrace it and love it all?
― Etheria Divine
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. – Robert Morley
Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
— Jack Canfield
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours—it is an amazing journey—and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
— Bob Moawad
Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.
― Elizabeth Gilbert
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
― Brené Brown
I have found, that we often must realize that we cannot be angry at people for simply not being capable of stepping out of their comfort zones to be decent human beings. You are born with this wild respect for people and you think it's all equal. And that's what hurts. Because it's not all equal, not all people are going to show up for you, not all people are going to do the decent thing for you, even if it's something that would be so easy for you to do. You can never make your standard into the standard for everyone. Some people are just frogs in a mud puddle, and really, they're actually perfectly fine with that!
― C. JoyBell C.
What does it mean to be self aware? In a sense, it's what it sounds like, but it also goes deeper than that. Self awareness is awareness that goes beyond the surface of the self; it's becoming aware not just of who we are, but what we stand for, and all the little things that make us up. When you become self aware, you learn about what makes you tick. You delve into the experiences that make you up as well as your thought patterns, perspectives, predominant emotions, and overarching beliefs. Self awareness without judgement is the key to a deep understanding of oneself, and the beginning of the healing process. Becoming self aware helps us to better understand our wants and needs, and only then can we move forward in taking care of yourself the right way, meeting our needs, and being secure enough in ourselves to go after our dreams.
― LeeNor Dikel
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