Authenticity Quotes

"You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"You know you are in love when you cannot fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It is quite simple, really: double your rate of failure."

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable."

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It is not something you learn in school. But if you have not learned the meaning of friendship, you really have not learned anything."

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life."

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work."

"Dreams are the seedlings of realities."

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."

"True forgiveness is when you can say, Thank you for that experience."

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

"When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life."

"The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment."

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

"Everything you can imagine is real."

"A meaningful life is not about being rich, popular, or perfect. It is about being real, humble, and kind."

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

"The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself."

"Be positive. Be true. Be kind."

"You were born to be real, not to be perfect."

"Stay strong, be brave, love hard and true, and you will have nothing to lose."

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."

"There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures."

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

"I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing."

"The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for."

"What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!"

"I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today."

"Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens."

"I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the 'Hannah Montana' movie that will be out in the spring."

"I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be."

"Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power."

"To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing."