Quotes About Genuineness

I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world. They know phony and they know real.'

Love is always real, even when it doesn't last.

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

I don't think anyone can fall in love for ratings.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

Lukewarm people love others but do not seek to love others as much as they love themselves.

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.

Una persona inauténtica sigue percibiendo las cosas y actuando de formas que su propia experiencia ha demostrado que son falsas. No habla con su propia voz.

a person's value does not rest on outward appearances, but on his true merits, what he really is.

Ni miento ni me arrepiento

Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.

Rais'd of themselves, their genuine charms they boast And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.

Truth must be found in reality, not systems.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.

An honest answer is like a warm hug.

We must pray who we actually are, not who we think we should be.

and I attempted, above all, to get at the truth, not the masquerade that declares itself as genuineness when, habitually, the truth is invoked, but a wholesale leveling of the artifices of personality, a selfless plunge into...into what I had thought must remain forever hidden, to the substance of what I had always kept in shadow ... to that point where self becomes sorrow ...