Quotes About Genuineness

Be that which you really are; don't pretend to be what you are not." He

I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say fine

No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down.

I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world. How much of my solicitude for other human beings is real and honest, how much is a feigned lacquer painted on by society, I do not know.

I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with a painted party smile, watching my date get drunk

No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter.

Unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long.

I felt a bit awkward about the tears, but they were real enough.

A real self, as we know, is a rare thing. The direct speech of a real self is rarer still. Where a real self exists it reveals itself, as a rule, only in the quality of the person's presence, or in actions

You'd be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look

What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?

Why, I'm just as true and honest as dirt. And I'm even more charming than dirt.

Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart...

You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

No matter how badly you want to please someone, you can only put up a false front for so long.

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

Creo que sé mirar, si es que algo sé, y que todo mirar rezuma falsedad, porque es lo que nos arroja más fuera de nosotros mismo, sin la menor garantía

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, and the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

The Kazi is searching the words of the Koran, and instructing others: but if his heart be not steeped in that love, what does it avail, though he be a teacher of men?

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Mohammed's son pores over words, and points out this and that, but if his chest is not soaked dark with love, then what? The Yogi comes along in his famous orange, but if inside he is colorless, then what?

Your heart knows not how to lie. It is great that it lays deep in your chest and not in your mouth.

Forcing oneself is short-lived. As all things that are insincere are short-lived. If one is honest and sincere about his motivations, he will move with himself, instead of against himself.

I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life.