Quotes About Genuineness

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

In my relationships with persons I have found that it does not help, in the long run, to act as though I were something that I am not.

It is so obvious when a person is not hiding behind a facade but is speaking from deep within himself.

He is learning that the feelings which exist are good enough to live by. They do not have to be coated with a veneer

I have come to feel that the more fully the individual is understood and accepted, the more he tends to drop the false fronts with which he has been meeting life, and the more he tends to move in a direction which is forward.

When asked a question, I try to consult my own feelings. If I sense it as being real and containing no other message than the question, then I will try my best to answer it. I feel no social compulsion, however, to answer simply because it is phrased as a question. There may be other message in it far more important than the question itself.

Experience drove home the fact that to act consistently acceptant, for example, if in fact I was feeling annoyed or skeptical or some other non-acceptant feeling, was certain in the long run to be perceived as inconsistent or untrustworthy. I have come to recognize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but that I be dependably real.

You will lose because people can sniff out a poser from a mile away.

seguir nuestro propio camino, la clave definitiva para ser presentadores genuinos y auténticos en los que la gente sienta que puede confiar.

At least it's real. Everything here is fake, fake, fake.' She tugs on the straps of her backpack and I'm so relieved that I'm an adult. What a nightmare it is to be a teenager, to think there's a place where everyone isn't fake, fake, fake.

You can pretend to be something other than who you are but eventually you will run out of energy to continue because that's not authentically you.

The truth is the truth whether you serve it up plain or top it with chocolate frosting. It's still the truth." "So

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.

Sometimes the truth feels good.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

If you would write the truth, you must first become the truth.

First of all, be what you are.

Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity.

Agesilaus, the Spartan king, was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale, but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.

Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in heaven will mind it; And the finest phrase falls dead, if there is no feeling behind it.

I like reality. It tastes of bread.

The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale, an' th' rest'll be rubber, (plastic!)

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.