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The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which Christianity has not adopted, but invented, are faith, hope and charity. Now… the first evident fact, I say, is that the pagan virtues, such as justice and temperance, are the sad virtues, and that the mystical virtues of faith, hope, and charity are the gay and exuberant virtues. And the second evident fact, which is even more evident, is the fact that the pagan virtues are the reasonable virtues, and that the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity are in their essence as unreasonable as they can be…charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
— G.K. Chesterton
The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They find themselves surrounded by hideous poverty, by hideous ugliness, by hideous starvation. It is inevitable that they should be strongly moved by all this. The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence; and, as I pointed out some time ago in an article on the function of criticism, it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. Accordingly, with admirable, though misdirected intentions, they very seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease.They try to solve the problem of poverty, for instance, by keeping the poor alive; or, in the case of a very advanced school, by amusing the poor.But this is not a solution: it is an aggravation of the difficulty. The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. And the altruistic virtues have really prevented the carrying out of this aim. Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good; and at last we have had the spectacle of men who have really studied the problem and know the life – educated men who live in the East End – coming forward and imploring the community to restrain its altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like. They do so on the ground that such charity degrades and demoralises. They are perfectly right. Charity creates a multitude of sins.
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, the Socialist Ideal Art, and the Coming Solidarity. by Oscar Wilde, William Morris, W.C. Owen
The greatest work you will ever do is charity; the most divine work you will ever do will be changing people’s perception of God, while you’re doing charity.
— Shannon L. Alder
I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
— Eve Ensler, In the Body of the World
Cultivate a passion for truth.Pursue a life of charity.Enjoy the beauty found in every day.
— Lisa Shea, Seeking The Truth
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
— William Law
Awards and recognition are not the purpose of life and not the goal of an activist. The heart of an activist usually redonates the money, or uses the accolades as a foot in the door for more activism and awareness. A plack on the wall won’t change the world; it only shows your devotion.
— Shannon L. Alder
Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others' loss & despair.
— Angelica Hopes
Show Goodness Onto The World And The World Will Show Goodness Onto You.
— Joshua Teya
Stirred with passion, laced with fun, spiked with laughter & served with a smile. On the road. No sugar, no mil. Horn OK Please. Buy my books or maythe wrath of a thousand locusts infest your underpants *Smack!!* :-)
— Kartik Iyengar
We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.
— John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.
— John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already possess. This re-convincing produces humility, because we realize that our needs are fulfilled. We don’t have to worry about ourselves anymore. This in turn frees us to stop looking out for what we think we need and liberates us to love our neighbor by looking out for what they need.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.
— Chieko N. Okazaki, Lighten Up
Christian writers, whether they like it or not, do not simply write for themselves; for good or ill, readers will see their work as reflecting Jesus Christ and his church. And if only for this reason - though there are other reasons - one must take great care when dealing with potentially controversial topics not to imagine one's every pronouncement preceded by 'Thus saith the Lord.' The law of love, on which 'all the law and the prophets' depend (Matt. 22:40), mandates charity toward one's opponents in argument.
— Alan Jacobs, A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age
Auntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and happy by communist standards. But when she got home, she cried to me that everyone had a palm out and she was the only one who left with an empty hand.
— Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
Everyone can choose to live with a golden heart, it is a privilege of loving truly.
— Angelica Hopes
Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you were you in his place. This is the touchstone of true reason.
— Francis de Sales
The purpose of any charity is simply to turn people's mirrors into windows. An outward view of the world's needs are vast in comparison to an inward one.
— Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.
— Richard Paul Evans, Lost December
Ought we not to love dearly the neighbor, who truly represents to us the sacred Person of our Master? And is this not one of the most powerful motives we could have for loving each other with an ardently burning love?
— Francis de Sales
That churchgoers do the lion's share of the charitable work in our communities is simply untrue. They get credit for it because they do a better job of tying the good works they do to their creed. But according to a 1998 study, 82% of volunteerism by churchgoers falls under the rubric of "church maintenance" activities -- volunteerism entirely within, and for the benefit of, the church building and immediate church community. As a result of this siphoning of volunteer energy into the care and feeding of churches themselves, most of the volunteering that happens out in the larger community -- from AIDS hospices to food shelves to international aid workers to those feeding the hungry and housing the homeless and caring for the elderly -- comes from the category of "unchurched" volunteers.
— Dale McGowan, Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion
I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was cold and you clothed me; come, possess the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.' He who is the the King of the poor and of kings will say this at His great judgment.
— Francis de Sales
One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker, there is not other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred;
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charity begins at home.
— American proverb
In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which the death of his friend Nebridius plunged him (Confessions IV, 10). Then he draws a moral. This is what comes, he says, of giving one’s heart to anything but God. All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only Beloved who will never pass away.
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity.
— Karen Armstrong, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
— Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings
Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.
— Terry Pratchett
The greatest gift you can ever give is yourself.
— Michelle Templet
I hate these affairs", he'd told her once, tearing up an engraved invitation to an exclusive charity ball. "They're the worst kind of discrimination. An invitation doesn't really mean that you're invited; it means that a whole lot of people aren't
— Melinda Cross, One Hour of Magic
There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.
— Joshua Loth Liebman, Peace of Mind: Insights on Human Nature That Can Change Your Life
The Three D's of Creating True Happiness For All.......Declutter - Remove all unwanted items from your home,Donate - to your local charity, Deduct - Save money by claiming your donation on your tax return
— Christina Scalise
From the standpoint of the upper classes, the system had many merits. They felt that what was paid out of the poor rate was charity, and therefore a proof of their benevolence; at the same time, wages were kept at starvation level by a method which just prevented discontent from developing into revolution...It was plainly the certainty, derived from the old Poor Law, that actual death would be averted by the parish authorities, which induced the rural poor of England to endure their misery patiently...it taught them respect for their 'betters'.While leaving all the wealth that they produced, beyond the absolute minimum required for subsistence, in the hands of the landowners and farmers. It was at this period that landowners built the sham Gothic ruins called 'follies', where they indulged in romantic sensibility about the past while they filled the present with misery and degradation.
— Bertrand Russell
If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.
— Dan Pallotta, Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up for Itself and Really Change the World
I believe when you integrate charity in your craft and not just think of the fame and riches it would entitle you with, you will feel this true sense of fulfillment. Carry on your mission, of where God destined you to be- to use His gifts in good ways and not just for yourself.
— Elizabeth E. Castillo
There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.
— Shashi Tharoor
Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.
— Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. It can be profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning is correct, how many of the journals in the world would stand the test? But who would stop those that are useless? And who should be the judge? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice.
— Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there.
— Indira Gandhi
Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it, because nobody else will.I tend to agree with the first part.
— Will Fetters, Memoirs
Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because “friends react on one another” and through loyalty to a friend one can be led into wrong-doing. This is unquestionably true. Moreover, if one is to love God, or to love humanity as a whole, one cannot give one's preference to any individual person. This again is true, and it marks the point at which the humanistic and the religious attitude cease to be reconcilable. To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. The autobiography leaves it uncertain whether Gandhi behaved in an inconsiderate way to his wife and children, but at any rate it makes clear that on three occasions he was willing to let his wife or a child die rather than administer the animal food prescribed by the doctor. It is true that the threatened death never actually occurred, and also that Gandhi — with, one gathers, a good deal of moral pressure in the opposite direction — always gave the patient the choice of staying alive at the price of committing a sin: still, if the decision had been solely his own, he would have forbidden the animal food, whatever the risks might be. There must, he says, be some limit to what we will do in order to remain alive, and the limit is well on this side of chicken broth. This attitude is perhaps a noble one, but, in the sense which — I think — most people would give to the word, it is inhuman. The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals. No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid. There is an obvious retort to this, but one should be wary about making it. In this yogi-ridden age, it is too readily assumed that “non-attachment” is not only better than a full acceptance of earthly life, but that the ordinary man only rejects it because it is too difficult: in other words, that the average human being is a failed saint. It is doubtful whether this is true. Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for “non-attachment” is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work. But it is not necessary here to argue whether the other-worldly or the humanistic ideal is “higher”. The point is that they are incompatible. One must choose between God and Man, and all “radicals” and “progressives”, from the mildest Liberal to the most extreme Anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.
— George Orwell
However, it’s usually random acts of good intent, like this one, which get you into the worst trouble in the long run. They say that if you want to change the world then you should be that change you want to see. Well that’s what Gandhi said and see what they did to him. Ya, random acts of good intent are the ones that just might get you killed. The further you stick your neck out for others the more likely it’s going to chopped, or at least get a large heavy albatross around it.
— Andrew James Pritchard, Sukiyaki
He was Lenin in a Lamborghini. He was Gandhi with a gun
— Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils.
— Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Wherever Gandhi went, he transformed situations and lives. As one friend and biographer wrote, "He...changed human beings by regarding them not as what they thought they were but as though they were what they wished to be, and as though the good in them was all of them
— Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet
My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.
— Mahatma Gandhi
[Nicholson] Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter he wrote to the British people on 3 July 1940. "Your soldiers are doing the same work of destruction as the Germans," wrote the Mahatma. "I want you to fight Nazism without arms." He went on to say: "Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them." I must say that everything in me declines to be addressed in that tone of voice
— Christopher Hitchens
Ask Gandhi, and eye for an eye makes us both blind.....ask an engineer, and the numbers don't lie - the first to strike wins.
— Steven Ivy - Attorney Entrepreneur
On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, I salute every individual who honors the core values of his legacy, making him proud of humanity.
— Widad Akreyi
Gujarat is my home state, welcome to the land of Krishna, Gandhi, Sardar & now it's Narendrabhai
— Mukesh Ambani Vibrant Gujarat 2015
Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.
— William Donaldson
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
— C.G. Jung
Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
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, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
— Eckhart Tolle
I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.
— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
The more of me I be,The clearer I can see.
— Rachel Archelaus
But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951
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, What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart. They are real and sustainable. Their foundations are stronger because they are built with the strength of the human spirit, not an ad campaign. The companies that are lasting are those that are authentic.
— Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.
— Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon
— David Carr, The Night of the Gun
Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does...
— Howard Schultz, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
— Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
Often misconstrued, authenticity is not about being an open book, revealing every detail of yourself without rhyme or reason. It is simply the act of openly and courageously seeing what needs to be seen, saying what needs to be said, doing what needs to be done, and becoming that which you are intent on being.
— Scott Edmund Miller
I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shotHoes I ain't caughtOr shit I ain't bought.
— Ice-T, Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood
It's not odd these days to hear politicians trumpeting their own authenticity, a claim that an earlier day would have considered self-cancelling. But when Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum say "I'm authentic," they're not evoking the shade of Neal Cassady. (102)
— Geoffrey Nunberg, Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years
The expression of your heart is beating beneath your fears
— Rachel Archelaus
Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn't authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.
— Ali Smith, The Accidental
Being authentic is nothing more than the daily practice of releasing who you believe you should be and having the guts 2 be true to yourself
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.
— Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
Let authenticity ignite your brilliance and dignify your craft.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.
— Roland Merullo, The Delight of Being Ordinary
There are more gifts in who you are than there are in who you think you want to be.
— Julieanne O'Connor
Authenticity is a powerful force. Don't ruin it with an illusion.
— K. Melissa Kennedy, The Innovation Revolution: Discover the Genius Hiding in Plain Sight
Actions Matter: Do As I Do. Not As I Say.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
People usually reveal only those aspects of life that enhance their personality & image, but in my case I love amusing people by being myself!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
You can ask others for directions about your life's path...But remember, then you're on someone else's journey and may get lost. Search for your path within.
— Nanette Mathews
There are always people who are inspired by you, just because you are who you are.
— Cindy Timmers
How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe those who are in hiding ... are simply inauthentic... But there are folks who know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it--and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth or the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas.
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
The word 'inauthentic' is used by Heidegger to describe the ostrich-like attitude of the man who seeks to escape from his inescapable self-responsibility by becoming an anonymous member of a crowd. This is the normal attitude of nearly everybody. To be 'authentic' a man must be constantly and deliberately aware of his total responsibility for what he is. For example, a judge may disclaim personal responsibility for sentencing people to punishment. He will say that as a judge it is his duty to punish. In other words it is as an anonymous representative of the Judiciary that he punishes, and it is the Judiciary that must take the responsibility. This man is inauthentic. If he wishes to be authentic he must think to himself, whenever he sits on the Bench or draws his salary, 'Why do I punish? Because, as a judge, it is my duty to punish. Why am I a judge? Is it perhaps my duty to be a judge? No. I am a judge because I myself choose to be a judge. I choose to be one who punishes in the name of the Law. Can I, if I really wish, choose not to be a judge? Yes, I am absolutely free at any moment to stop being a judge, if I so choose. If this is so, when a guilty man comes up before me for sentence, do I have any alternative but to punish him? Yes, I can get up, walk out of the courtroom, and resign my job. Then if, instead, I punish him, am I responsible? I am totally responsible.
— Nanavira Thera
What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you.
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
Leadership vision is built on the leader’s authenticity.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Nothing is more attractive than authenticity
— Angie karan
SHINING is how you become BRIGHTER!
— Trilby D. Johnson, A-Ha Moments: Inspirational Quotes to Shift Your Thinking
Authenticity soothes the soul.
— Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
Branding is a verb, ya heard? Now get out there and BE your brand.
— Catrice M. Jackson
Take your feet of of the brakes, push the pedal, give yourself the green light and be unstoppable.
— Catrice M. Jackson
Authenticity reduces stress and produces faith in oneself and in the potential to grow and learn.
— Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
Genuine, authentic relating enlivens the spirit.
— Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
Customers don't just want another cool product or service, they want to have an experience worth sharing
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity.
— Kevin Focke
What you're willing to give tells you who you are. Not what you are willing to bargain for, or willing to be paid for - but what it is you are willing to give.
— Garry Fitchett
Be real. Be you and don't you dare apologize for who you are ever again.
— Catrice M. Jackson
I feel I need a holiday, a very long holiday, as I have told you before. Probably a permanent holiday: I don't expect I shall return. in fact, I don't mean to, and I have made all arrangements....I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.'Bilbo
— J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
The animalism of the brute nature in man is disgusting', he thought, 'but as long as it remains in its naked form we observe it from the height of our spiritual life and despise it; and - whether one has fallen or resisted - one remains what one was before. But when that same animalism hides under a cloak of poetry and aesthetic feeling and demands our worship - then we are swallowed up by it completely and worship animalism, no longer distinguishing good from evil. Then it is awful!
— Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
Surrendering to who you really are and why you are here may very well change the world.
— Maria Flynn
Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Although it might seem as though anonymity, invisibility, and other such distancing factors grant us the freedom to engage in more authentic forms of self-expression than we're usually permitted, [John] Suler warns against the temptation to regard disinhibition as "revealing of an underlying 'rue self." He suggests instead that the inhibited self and disinhibited self are simply different *sides* of the *same* person. So Suler challenges the intuitive notion that whatever inhibits us thereby diminishes the authenticity of our self-expression.
— Mimi Marinucci, Facebook and Philosophy: What's on Your Mind?
Plasticity inhibits authenticity, and fosters in its place a kind of fairytale, insubstantial, unstable environment. All under the cover of freedom of choice. but there is no freedom larger than simply being who you must be. There is no more formidable Self than the one that has adjusted to nonnegotiable fixed points or unconditional obstacles to its aspiration. There is no more compelling truth than accepting with genuine grace what one cannot change.And so there is no larger testimony to freedom than someone who has taken such a course of life over a long haul; who ultimately and transparently bears the marks and scars of where they have been in real time. Such person wear line on their faces, lines that resolutely defy the airbrush. Such persons need not continuously broadcast their inner narratives; nor need they present the same visage to every acquaintance. But their faces still speak volumes to anyone with eyes to see. Their faces bear the marks of their irrevocable investments in their inalienable humanity.
— Mariam Thalos, Facebook and Philosophy: What's on Your Mind?
Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
There was no one for you to impress and no one for you to offend. You were right there and I was afraid of how real you were, which made me question my own level of authenticity. I'd take off my clothes on the beach or spill my guts to a girl I'd never met on the bus, thinking I was uncensored and open, but I wasn't always real if I wanted someone to like me. I gravitated to those who withheld or told me who they thought I was.
— Mary-Louise Parker, Dear Mr. You
My friendships have stopped being so exclusive and the guidelines have simplified.Does knowing me help someone I know become a better person?Am I becoming a better person knowing someone?Here’s how I know a relationship is working. When I’m with that person, I am happy. I look forward to seeing that person. I’m not afraid that that person will hurt me intentionally. I’m not hesitant to speak up if I do feel hurt. Knowing that person, challenges me to grow. Being around that person gives me comfort when I feel sad. That person is someone I want to celebrate with when things are great.I’ve let go of expecting people to behave a certain way or to treat me a certain way. However, I feel I’m more idealistic about my relationships than I’ve ever been. I want the most difficult thing you can ask a person and that is for them to be themselves, the good and the bad. I want authenticity where many find it hard to be authentic with themselves. It’s from our authentic selves where true connections are made.It’s from those true connections where I finally feel understood.
— Corin
Don’t walk through life stifling your authenticity, suppressing your uniqueness, hiding your truth out of fear of what others may think, Being someone other than you are only hampers your wellbeing and also wastes a whole lot of your energy.
— Renee Cefalu
Professional happiness is the tonic of longevity.
— Garry Fitchett, Life Is a Bicycle: A Living Philosophy to Finding Your Authenticity
Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
I often think that the effort we put into trying to pretend something about us is true — that we are less than we are or more than we are or that one aspect of ourselves is the whole story — is based in a fear of  being really known, of  being truly seen, as we actually are. Perhaps we each have a wound, a vulnerable place that we have to protect in order to survive. And yet sometimes we overcompensate so much for the things we are trying to hide that no one ever suspects the truth…and then we are left in the true aloneness of never really being known.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
True friends—those that want nothing for you but peace, harmony, and joy—sometimes more than you want it for yourself—will rise to the surface. Those are the ones to listen to and commune with. You will know their voice because it’s authentic as well, and it speaks with no ulterior motives or projections. It may not tell you pretty things, but it will always speak in love.
— Akosua Dardaine Edwards, What Did I Learn Today? Lessons on the Journey to Unconditional Self-Love
Authenticity is about returning and magnifying who you are, instead of trying to become someone who you think you should be. It’s about peeling off the false adornments and standing wholly, holy, and true.
— Akosua Dardaine Edwards, What Did I Learn Today? Lessons on the Journey to Unconditional Self-Love
Authenticity is not possible without embracing the “and” within us. Our minds like to categorize things into neatly labeled boxes. Am I right, or is she right? Let’s stretch our minds to I can be right and so can she. Embracing the “and” is like yoga for the brain. When we train ourselves to hold paradoxes by stretching ourselves out of the boxes our minds create, we stretch into new possibilities and adapt more quickly in a fast-changing world.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
Most of us want to be authentic. Yet, we are not who we think we are. We are made up of a rich array of facets and possibilities, many of which we ignore because we label them as “bad”. We create a cardboard cutout image of ourselves to look good to others. The discord between who we are and the image we have to live up to slowly kills our aliveness. When we suppress parts of ourselves, it lowers our mojo, sense of fulfillment, leadership effectiveness and impact in the workplace.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
Authentic leadership is leading adaptively from your core, choosing who you’re most inspired to be to serve the greatest good in this moment.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
Authentic leadership is a whole body experience. Our bodies have a lot more to teach us about ourselves than our thoughts.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
If we try to emulate the leadership style of others we perceive as successful, we end up being second-rate versions of someone else.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
Inspiration is the most radiant and flourishing expression of our authenticity.
— Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead
Authentic personal brands are built on the foundation of purpose
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Brain ablaze. Feel like we are unearthing something and finding ourselves, knowing ourselves, stripping odd layers of our upbringing like old paint. Can't write about it fully yet. Don't understand it. I only know that when F leaves and B and I talk I feel like I am saying - and hearing - the first wholly honest words of my life.
— Lily King
Our imperfections are what create authentic connections with one another.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
True beauty can only be found in the true Self.
— Ka Chinery, Perceptions from the Photon Frequency: The Ascended Version
To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
The real you focuses on goals that inspire you and doesn’t let “that’s just not me!” stand in the way.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
To be effortlessly yourself is a blessing, an ambrosia. It is like a few tiny little puffs of opium which lift you ever so slightly off the hard surface of the world.
— Laurie Colwin, Goodbye Without Leaving
To be effective, we have to slow down the speed of our thoughts and focus on managing our attention.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
Authenticity is imperative, it brings forth respect,trust, love and confidence. This simply means you'll be respected, trusted, loved by many people and you'll be confident enough to take a first step towards your dreams. It also gives you independent thinking and understanding of things in general. Just be you, live original and you'll benefit great things from it.
— Euginia Herlihy
Authentic leadership is about leading from the core of who we are to inspire each of us to our best contribution toward a shared mission.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
Enjoy your own authentic stupidity rather than strive vainly to be wise.
— David  Brandon, Tao of Survival: Spirituality in Social Care and Counselling
You are like an ocean: quietly ebbing and flowing to the rhythm of life, but wildly expansive and profoundly powerful. You are boundless. You are whole. Your quietness is your strength. Your depth is your advantage.
— Aletheia Luna, Quiet Strength: Embracing, Empowering and Honoring Yourself as an Introvert
I'm a thousand different people. Every one is real.
— Candy Darling, My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar
We must say "no" to what, in our heart, we don't want. We must say "no" to doing things out of obligation, thereby cheating those important to us of the purest expression of our love. We must say "no" to treating ourselves, our health, our needs as not as important as someone else's. We must say “no.
— Suzette R. Hinton
If chained is where you have been, your ams will always bear marks of the shackles. What you have to lose is your story, your own slant. You'll look at the scars on your arms and see mere ugliness, or you'll take great care to look away from them and see nothing. Either way, you have no words for the story of where you came from.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself,“How can I participate in this community and still be who I am?
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
If it took your authentic voice to get you there, it will take your authentic voice to keep you there. Your job is to keep listening.
— Suzette R. Hinton
When we are driven by ego and a relentless need to succeed, it’s easy to blindly neglect the relationships, self-care and truth that will create joy and authentic fulfillment in our lives.
— Shannon Tanner, Worthy: The POWER of Wholeness
As a young wife and mother living in a pre-Pinterest world, I used to glue-gun bows and small pieces of minutia together methodically. I was an insomniac proudly penning thank you notes longer than the Declaration of Independence to every person who had even sent me a card. I was reorganizing my linen closet, ironing placemats, straight-ironing my hair, and never saying no to any person that asked me for a favor. And, I forgot to mention, I didn’t really like myself.I felt like a fuzzy, carbon copy of myself. I felt the passion, the conviction, and the grit somewhere inside of me yet a bunch of preconceived ideas somehow got in the way.
— Ann Brasco
I am not a genuine woman, but I am not interested in genuineness.
— Candy Darling, My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters, and Drawings of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar
What ever we desire to do should start with authenticity and end with authenticity. This simply means we should be ourselves in every step we take to pursue our dreams. Authenticity is the back bone of every dream that lives inside of us.
— Euginia Herlihy
The one thing I have that nobody else has or can duplicate is my sound. The sound of my voice. The sound of my life. Others may say similar things but they can’t say them like I do.
— Suzette R. Hinton
It's a funny thing, how it works...The moment we stop trying so hard to be someone, we become ourselves--only what was there all along, waiting and peeking out from behind all the masks we wore.And when this happens, we discover that Who We Really Are is much greater than anything we might have pretended or even hoped to be.
— Jacob Nordby
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
— Margaret Thatcher
When you honor your most authentic self-—your Spirit—you are allowing your Light to shine and touch the world. Living authentically, in its simplest terms, is living your Truth, the truth in your heart and soul. It's allowing yourself to be guided by Divine Truth and Wisdom, each and every day, and doing your Highest, most authentic work in the world. It's joyfully creating and living your Highest purpose!
— Valerie Rickel
Without authenticity, we are only a poor imitation of someone else.
— Tom Hayes
An echo has no voice of its own.
— Marty Rubin
A man could not be prevented from making himself a big wax doll, and kissing it. But if the man were to come with the doll and sit before a man in love, and begin caressing his doll as the lover caressed the woman he loved, it would be distastefulto the lover. Just such a distasteful sensation was what Mihailov felt at the sight of Vronsky’s painting: he felt it both ludicrous and irritating, both pitiable and offensive.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I live wherever you are cos honestly there's no better place to call home
— Nomzamo Nhlumayo
It is almost as if we are all playing a big game of hide-and-go-seek. We all hide expecting to be found, but no one has been labelled the seeker. We stand behind the wall, at first excited, then worried, then bored, then anxious, then angry. We hide and hide. After a while, the game is not fun anymore. Where is my seeker? Where is the person who is supposed to come find me here in my protected shell and cut me open? Where is that one who will make me trust him, make me comfortable, make me feel whole? Some people rot on the spot, waiting for the seeker that never comes. The most important truth that I can relate to you, if you are hiding and waiting, is that the seeker is you and the world, behind so many walls, awaits.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Think about the word mould for a moment. A mould is a device into which one crams and smashes something until it becomes the shape that they desire. Don't spend your life letting other people destroy you while they try and force you into their moulds.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.
— Leslea Tash, Bird After Bird
The truth does not need a number of supporters for authenticity. One person among the lot can be the only truthful out of the ten; 11 people out of 12 may be on the truthful side. However, the truth is the truth irrespective of how many people like to embrace it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the surface of things. To live permeably is to be open-hearted and audacious, to risk showing up as our truest self, and embracing a willingness to be astonished.
— Carrie Newcomer, A Permeable Life: Poems & Essays
Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.
— Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer
Be fearlessly authentic.
— Anonymous
The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Authenticity is what makes a relatable person believable. It is what makes the relatability sustainable. Anyone can fake relatability for a time, but authenticity is what makes it real.
— Michele Jennae, The Connectworker