Quotes About Genuineness

I learned in high school, if I hold up an effigy, a mask, or a lie, that mask will get all the love, not me.

You and Derek are good together," Vanessa added. She looked so sincere. Tianna wished she'd smirk or give her the slightest reason to hate her. She wanted to, but she couldn't. Vanessa was too genuine and good for anyone to dislike.

People in everyday life can sniff out the neediness of a performer trying to earn love.

but repentance is faith's fruit, and there is no more reality in a profession of faith than there is reality of repentance accompanying it.

You are not happy when you feel happy, you are happy when you are happy.

Eu sei que vossa excelência preferia uma delicada mentira; mas eu não conheço nada mais delicado que a verdade.

But what was fortune? She had come to believe it was being exactly the same on the inside as on the outside. What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside?

How did a person know, he wondered, what was love and what was a facsimile of it? Did it matter? Was the thing that mattered most the action that one took - or failed to take - in the name of that feeling?

8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine and deep and necessary. You don't have time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly; you don't waste time talking about nothing. You use your life.

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.

If you feel something deeply, you're not ashamed to show your feeling.

Also, I'm not going to be devastated or anything either way. I'm not that kind of person. I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I—" she says, but then I hold up my finger, because I need to hear the thing she just said, and she talks too fast for me to keep up. I keep holding up my hand, thinking if you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.

An affection that was calculated was never trustworthy.

The point was - he wasn't acting . It was as if he'd forgotten how! Jack still knew his lines, but he was out of character... Jack had stopped acting. He was just Jack Burns - the real Jack Burns at last.

Things often are as they appear.

I must confess, that (since I am on the subject) I love you the more in that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

Finny always said what he happened to be thinking, and if this stunned people then he was surprised.

Because it was what you had in your heart that counted.

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Only the fakes survive.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers.