Quotes About Genuineness

I'm not trying to be anyone else.

There is one thing in this world that I'm better that than anyone else and that is being me.

I know it's so 'in' to be blase, but that's not going to get you anywhere.

Man, I'm just going to be myself. I shouldn't have to apologize for that. If people don't understand that, then they don't understand it. I'm not going to try to be somebody I'm not.

My appearance with disheveled hair and no make-up is the real me.

I'm not ashamed to speak about anything. And what I'm telling you is real; it's from the heart.

I'm not ashamed to speak my mind. What you see is what you get. You're not going to get a two-faced person who is going to say one thing and mean another.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul would'st reach! It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech. Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

I think that if one is seeking to build a truly satisfying relationship, the best way of bringing this about is to get to know the deeper nature of the person and relate to her or him on that level, instead of merely on the basis of superficial characteristics.

Keep on being yourself.

Just be true, and there are no barriers.

Anna radiated nothing more than happiness, and the guileless mystery of being what she was, which is something few of us can manage.

Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.

That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble.

Even if false gold makes a man happy: At the mint it will be identified.

You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.

There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.

Si no puedes reír con frecuencia y autenticidad, no tienes alma.

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

Donde haya una cosa verdadera o útil, con seguridad habrá una falsificación.

Aunque el oro falso haga feliz a un hombre, en la casa de la moneda será identificado.

The problem is that the spurious, the unreal, the untrue is so much easier to find that it is in danger of becoming the norm.