#authenticity

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. ↗

— John Hawkes

#around #authenticity #being #cliche #complacency

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#experience #forward #go #ideals #language

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure. ↗

— John Legend

#authenticity #finding #life #pure #real

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#authenticity #bar #days #expectations #higher

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer. ↗

— Erwin Raphael McManus

#design

At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a divine madness. ↗

— Cristina Nehring

#divine-madness #excess #love #passion #risk

When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I’m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration. ↗

— Erwin Raphael McManus

#inspirational

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#authenticity #because #director #doing #even

Too often we think sharing our weaknesses will cause us to lose respect. We think making our weaknesses know will cause us to lose the honour to be able to proclaim the Word of God in our congregations or our businesses. I know longer believe that is true. Not today, in our post modern culture. What I do believe is the more you tell the truth about yourself – appropriately, winsomely, age-appropriately, within a context – the more effective your leadership will become, the more you will develop a true leading character. The more you tell of your own failure of character, the more God will use that for His purposes. ↗

— Dan B. Allender

#age

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance. ↗

— Brené Brown

#belonging #self-acceptance #courage