Quotes About Genuineness

A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is still playing with masks and roles and status symbols. And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.

Mes apsimetame, jog gyventume, ir gyvename, jog apsimestume

Having someone ask you how you were, who you were, as if they genuinely wanted to know. That meant something to people.

Once you have mates who know you, right down under the this-and-that you decide people want to see today, then there's no room left for the someday person who'll magic you into being all your finest dreams. You've turned solid:you're the person your mates know, forever.

Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To me, it seems self-evident that everyone lives in the real world—we all breathe real oxygen, eat real food, the earth under our feet feels equally solid to all of us.

I want my daughter to learn that not everything in this world is determined by how often she hears it or how much she wants it to be true or how many other people are looking. Somewhere in there, for a thing to count as real, there has got to be some actual bloody reality.

I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.

Don't ever regret being honest. Period.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

What's cool is that Oprah is the same person on stage and in front of a camera as she is off stage and behind the scenes. She speaks the same way on camera as she does off camera.

I am not a guy who can write speeches and when I speak I speak from the heart, I just say what I feel and what I believe in.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

I've always spoken my mind and from the heart.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

I'm a real dude from a real place and I never express myself through social sites. I don't feed into it, man. That's not real life.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.