“Don’t become something just because someone else wants you to, or because it’s easy; you won’t be happy. You have to do what you really, really, really want to do, even if it scares the shit out of you.” – Kristen Wiig

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” – Joseph Campbell

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” – Ben Okri

“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.” – Pema Chodron

“Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.” – Eckhart Tolle

“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.” – Brene Brown

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.” – George Sand

“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.” – Dalai Lama XIV