“Because the exposure of self to self lies at the heart of neurotic shame, escape from the self is necessary. The escape… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I will a hundred percent sell out. Because I'll always be myself... my raw, authentic self. — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
I just always have that connection with my fans where I want to give them my most like raw authentic self. — Tana Mongeau Copy Share Image
“In love, there is no need to choose between self and other, because self is other.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“An awakened mind and heart will serve you well. Rigidity stalls upward progress. Be as expansive as you can. Even when you… — Dr. Kristen Lee Copy Share Image
It's saying you don't have to be a trick pony to continuously please someone else.... be your healthy, authentic self. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Dear Beautiful Black Queens… Never underestimate the beauty of just being YOU. Being your authentic self is powerful, sexy, and courageous!” — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
“Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I don't think about my look that much, to be honest. It's what I've always known, it's what I've grown up with,… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
“A child can only experience his feelings when there is someone there who fully accepts them, names them and supports them. Another… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don't… — Sean Hayes Copy Share Image
Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires that are in alignment with core… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“Show up as the real you. The airbrushed you isn’t sustainable, or even half as awesome.” — Kristen Lee Copy Share Image
“What if the theories in psychology that dominate our mainstream culture are flawed, rather than the people they diagnose? That we close… — Dr. Kristen Lee Copy Share Image
When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“If someone is hating on me for being myself that's completely fine, because I love myself and respect myself enough to do… — Noeul Nuttarat Tangwai Copy Share Image
“Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Kuan Yin is showing me visually how I’m (and we all are) part of a round ball of light that people call… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
It doesn't make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don't really see ourselves. We don't watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Toxic shame, with its more-than-human, less-than-human polarization, is either inhuman or dehumanizing. The demand for a false self to cover and hide… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image