Quotes On: Authenticity

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

My life is my message.

A person who is trying to copy others will be a successful person for a while, but he won’t be able to succeed further in life.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

If we are true to ourselves we cannot be false to anyone.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way i know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.