#authentic

As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65 ↗

— Marcel Benabou

#success #age

Authentic love is soft, smooth, easy, it's laughter to the soul, it's communication, it's respect, it's an unconditional love without envy or malice. ↗

— Colishia S. Benjamin

#inspirational-quotes #communication

We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves. ↗

— James Hollis

#life

God impressed me with this a long time ago: 'Roddy, I will never do anything through you until I have done it to you!'." ~R. Alan Woods [1998] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#experience #r-alan-woods #theology #experience

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#leadership #strength #thriving #truth #wisdom

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#authenticity #gratitude #hard-work #inspirational #life

Perhaps the day will come where the validity of one's spirituality will be judged not by the correctness of one's theology but by the authenticity of one's spiritual life. When that day comes, an authentically spiritual Buddhist and an authentically spiritual Christian may find that they have more in common with each other than they do with those in their respective religions who have failed to develop their spirituality. (Beyond Religion, p. 98) ↗

— David N. Elkins

#buddhism #christianity #spirituality #life

I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shot Hoes I ain't caught Or shit I ain't bought. ↗

— Ice-T

#life

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

— Jean Vanier

#authority #peace #power #love

[...]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