Quotes About Genuineness

Truth is a luxury. We can only afford it now and then.

truth recognizes truth

The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they're pretending to be something they're not.

Nunca mais farei nada, para ninguém, que não sinta vir do fundo do meu coração. Não irei a eventos, não farei ligações, não escreverei cartas, não patrocinarei nem participarei de nenhuma atividade que não faça ressoar em cada fibra do meu ser. Agirei sempre com a intenção de ser sincera comigo mesma.

I like all the disgusting things that are fine just being themselves. What's wrong with a little honest vulgarity?

Shakespeare says: God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.

A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.

That was the difference between her and the idiots of the world. They were all trying to look smart and keep their social standing. Whereas Valentine didn't care about social standing, she cared about getting it right. Getting the truth.

That's the truth—what is, what was, what will be—not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

I only know that every act which has no heart will be found out in the end.

every act which has no heart will be found out in the end. Every gesture.

as if there's a clear distinction between real and fake for any of us. Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?

Oh come on—as if there's a clear distinction between real and fake for any of us. Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?

It all depended on what their grandmother was really like, inside herself where she was who she really was. Not outside. Dicey knew about the difference between outside and inside.

Always resemble yourself.

The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

Because I infinitely prefer the spontaneous spite to the concocted sugaries;

Whenever you look back and say if you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as if. The only thing that matters is what really happened.