376 quotes found
“Trying to be white? What the hell does that mean? I've never understood that. How could anyone be white when they aren't white? Seems like a simple enough thing to prove, right? Hold out your arm n...”
“Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of twentythe world of the elderlythrown up in such black outline upon what we are; upon the reality; t...”
“If you find yourself criticizing other people, you're probably doing it out of Resistance. When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out o...”
“As they seek authenticity, Emerging Evangelicals seek freedom - from loneliness, convention, unwanted authority, dominant paradigms, the prevailing social climate, and impersonal bureaucracies. Iro...”
“The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.”
“One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.”
“We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.”
“You are eternal, beautiful, and real.”
“While women have come far in their ability to speak on their own behalf, there are many women who compromise what they want to say and what they actually say. Almost all women experience a dissonan...”
“Many of us live in denial of who we truly are because we fear losing someone or something-and there are times that if we don't rock the boat, too often the one we lose is ourselves...It feels good ...”
“Creator of indifferences is the motto I want for my spirit today. I'd like my life's activity to consist, above all, in educating others to feel more and more for themselves, and less and less acco...”
“What you say is not as important as who you are when you're saying it.”
“Be wary of a self-professed "nice guy". Anyone who is always going around saying they are "just trying to be nice" are most often, anything but nice. -If you're truly kind and loving, you don't hav...”
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the timeinauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our m...”
“At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and exce...”
“Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.”
“There are too many people who love me, and accept me, and never try and change me, and who dont condemn me in the slightest, for me to waste even one moment of my life anymore worrying about what o...”
“Something good happened to my writing when stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldnt do something more complex. Dont be confused by the word simple...”
“I have never seen a heavyweight champion apologize for a knockout”
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.”
