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It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. -- Zachary Quinto
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life. -- Anne Lamott
An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices. -- Alan Cohen
I want people to have the practical tools and resources they need to lead high quality, authentic lives. -- Cheryl Richardson
To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless. -- Rajneesh
A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path. -- Gay Hendricks
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life. -- Adyashanti
When you learn what you can live without, you are able to ask life for the very best because you possess the gift of discernment. You are able to create an authentic life because you are able to make conscious choices. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Today is not the day you quit. Nor is it the day you cry. Today you know that you have all the passion and wisdom to find that quiet center of solace, serenity and strength necessary to create and sustain an authentic life. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride. -- Khaled Hosseini
Things happen to help you get rid of the parts of yourself that aren't you; to help you be more real and more yourself, not like everyone else; to help you lead a more authentic life; and ultimately to help you discover who you really are. -- Mira Kirshenbaum
Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here: to love and live fully, to be curious about all things, and to live a compassionate - and passionate - authentic life. -- Mira Bartok
Just be yourself and everything will fall in line, the way it's supposed to be. If you're yourself, that's the best thing you can do, because you can never go "damn if I'd only been myself." Live an authentic life and you don't have to worry about your reputation. -- Joan Jett
...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors. -- Bernie Siegel
I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life. -- Laverne Cox
Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them. -- Raoul Vaneigem
My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about. -- Tucker Max
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life. -- Bernie Siegel
Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting. -- Paul Guilfoyle
If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic. -- Trent Dilfer
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. -- Allan Bloom
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place. -- Taylor Swift
The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life. -- Gary Zukav
The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try. -- Gary Zukav
In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence. -- Armstrong Williams
The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness. -- Martin Seligman
I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine. -- Zachary Quinto
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form. -- Irving Stone
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country. -- Aravind Adiga
Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old. -- David Rakoff
I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams. -- Dita Von Teese
There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of how you're gonna do your time. And these are observations I made about Folsom when I was there with Dustin Hoffman when he was directing 'Straight Time.' -- Michael Mann
I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic. -- Jane Pauley
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.... -- Isadora Duncan
Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life! -- Sheri Fink
An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life. -- D. J. Enright
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust -- Brennan Manning
Faith to me it's believe without seeing, it's how you live your life, how you are authentic. -- Jim Caviezel
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification. -- Martin Seligman
Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature. -- Rajneesh
You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection. -- Marianne Williamson
I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life. -- Zooey Deschanel
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life. -- Brennan Manning
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... -- John Berger
The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life. -- Jason Evert
Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better. -- Bob Hoover
The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly. -- Emmet Gowin
I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul. -- Wilhelm Reich
Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life. -- Rebecca West
Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here. -- Wayne Dyer
"You're All That" goes back to really building a life from the core of who you're. And all of those things are layers. That's just your authentic life. -- Paula White
I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one. -- Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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