Quotes About Genuineness

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you, which is a great comfort in the long run.

Is this love - this easy generosity, this sense of being understood at last, of not having to pretend?

De hecho, tiene más. Porque al menos yo no finjo ser lo que no soy.

Es esto el amor, esta generosidad natural, este sentimiento de ser comprendido por fin, de no tener que fingir?

not in the stupid-ass Miley Cyrus poser-sex way—and

Ehlena was naturally lovely, with fine small features and that strawberry blond hair and those long, lean limbs. Her lips were pink because they were pink—not from some eighteen-hour, glossy, frosted grease coat. And her toffee-colored eyes were luminescent because they were yellow and red and gold all mixed together—not from a whole lot of paint-by-numbers shimmery shadow and slathered-on mascara. And her cheeks were flushed because he was getting under her skin. -Rehv's thoughts

Gift wrapping one's words does not change the nature of truth. Autumn looked back out to the snowy landscape and the river that was partially frozen. And I would rather know what is real than live a lie.

He tried out a smile. Widened it. His cheeks felt like they were going to crack. Yeah, okay, so he wasn't exactly Hallmark-card material.

Real life went down when and where it did, regardless of whether things were photogenic.

It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.

He couldn't fake being their kind. The masquerade would fail, and besides, masquerade was foreign to his nature. There was no room in him for sham or artifice. Whatever happened, he must be real. He

Lots of people feel that I am a fake. But I know that my smile and twinkle exist, reflecting the glow of my creator.

The only thing that my fans expect out of me is for it to be natural and not forced. They know me really well, and the moment I start to force something and pretend to be something I'm not, they're gonna pick up on it. They'll literally call me out on Twitter, like, 'Charlie, this is not you.'

I'm not a ranter on Twitter or Instagram - that ain't how I'm rocking.

I don't have two different personalities. I am what I am.

I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

I ran out of any type of persona. I just had to be me.