Quotes About Genuineness

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

I've never played the jack-it-up kinda game; that's just not who I am.

I believe in just being yourself, and the whole kit and caboodle comes with it.

I think it's helped me that I've always been very grounded, very down to earth. Lots of my friends are people I've known from school, and when I'm away from football, they're the ones who I knock about with.

I want to be me - and people know it's me. I don't want: 'He's trying to act like Kobe' or 'His answers are like something Kobe would've said.' Nah. If it's me, I'm going to say it.

Flashy on the outside wasn't how Jesus rolled, and flashy on the inside doesn't come from us. We roll in minivans of clay so that God's awesomeness is clearly recognized for what it is: Him and not us.

Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads...it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease.

When you can face reality without camouflage, yours is the face of compassion. What a sight for sore eyes!

The real thinkers of the world aren't the best dressed. Staying on top of the latest fashions, accessorizing, and presenting oneself is time consuming. It takes a lot of effort, energy and concentration to be incessantly happy and perfectly groomed. You meet somebody like that- ask yourself what they're running from.

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

I had no idea how it knew, but it knew I knew, and I knew it, and there was no point in faking.

life is too short for fake butter or fake people.

I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

Be yourself, it's a tough act to follow.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

A good earthy witch is more honest than some city rogue tricked out in black cone-hat and robe of stars

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

She never says she loves a book if she doesn't.

I'm not sure I know what 'simple-hearted' means," I said haughtily. "When there's no deceit or malice in your heart. Most of us have some; it protects us. People without it are rare.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

In an industry where people merely *play* heroes, he was the real thing.

Do you know how gemologists tell a fake emerald from a real one? The fakes are perfect. Real emeralds have flaws. None of us is perfect.