Quotes About Genuineness

Out in the radish fields, she did not have to impress, outthink, or outperform anyone.

When you are genuinely being your true self, you need no words of explanation. You just are.

It may not be elegant but it's true: There is no place for bullshit in a disaster zone.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.

Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are… The common people are always impressed by appearances and results.

Tell me, why are the old friends kind, And ever the tenderest, too? Youth has no art, but an open mind, And its love is sincere and true.

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

But your imaginings would be ersatz, as all imaginings are.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.

No matter how sophisticated the style or elegant the setting, soul is the bottom line.

We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

In a world where one can be anything, sometimes the hardest thing to be is yourself.

It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I liked county fairs, particularly the goat booth at the 4-H tent, or that I once spent a week with my grandmother at her house in the giant retirement community of Sun City, Arizona, and it was one of the most carefree times of my life.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.

Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido sin ostentación ni premeditación, quedarse con lo bueno de cada uno, mejorarlo aun, y no decir nada de lo malo, eso sólo lo haces tú.

Affectation of candour is common enough; one meets it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design - to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad - belongs to you alone.

I am not a people pleaser. I am not a person who says things because she thinks it will make the other person happy, nor am I a person who offers things she cannot deliver because I want the other person to like me.

What is real is always worth it.