#authentic

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#authority #peace #power #love

Sincerity is the fulfillment of our own nature, and to arrive at it we need only follow our own true Self. Sincerity is the beginning and end of existence; without it, nothing can endure. Therefore the mature person values sincerity above all things. ↗

— Tzu-ssu

#honesty #sincerity #nature

As you become more aligned with the truth of who you are, the question of liking yourself goes away. It is a natural state of being. ↗

— Rachel Andrews

#self-esteem #nature

[...]to be real--to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate. ↗

— Tom McCarthy

#reality #repetition #nature

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character. ↗

— Alan Alda

#authentic #character #defeat #fun #i

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#authentic #being #forward #just #lean

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. ↗

— Julian Assange

#being #claimed #history #material #nobody

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#art #authentic #bad #beside #between

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language. ↗

— Hans Kung

#authentic #god #got #language #liturgy

There's so many young women today who look so lost. And I feel like, of course they're lost. They have no one around them to give them real, authentic reflection. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#authentic #course #feel #give #i