Quotes About Genuineness

Even though we aren't perfect, let's try to tell the truth and live our honest life.

You know its better to be a horrible bully whos completly real than to be the nicest person on earth imitating someone elses life.

He did not gleam like gold. He was not polished and perfect. But he was the same all the way through, like a block of marble cut whole from a quarry P.196

There was a sort of innocence to him, I thought. I do not mean this as the poets mean it: a virtue to be broken by the story's end, or else upheld at greatest cost. Nor do I mean that he was foolish or guileless. I mean that he was made only of himself, without the dregs that clog the rest of us.

Perhaps most remarkable was his unself-consciousness

It doesn't matter what it looked like. What matters is the truth." (Mr. Peabody to Tommy)

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

The truth is a hard thing to bear, but it's always better than living a lie.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

pero estoy harta de no ser quien no soy, y no puedo ser yo si aparento que soy otra.

Everything after but is BullShit !

Smile strained and over-bright, he deemed her honesty sterling.

The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.

Por otro, su naturaleza tan derecha, frontal, diercta- lo que siempre he agradecido; nada de palabrejas analgésicas-Y, lo que al pirncipio creí ver como esnobismo (que no le gusta el ruido gratuito, la alegría falsa, la fiesta, el aspaviento, la pompa, la seiedad solemne), no es más que una sencillez muy clara.

Por el otro, su naturaleza tan derecha, frontal, sin remilgos, directa- lo que siempre le he agredecido; nada de palabrejas analgésicas-. Y lo que al principio creí ver como esnobismo (que no le guste el ruido gratuito, la alegría falsa, la fiesta, el aspaviento, la pompa, la seriedad solemne), no es más que una sencillez muy clara.

phony to force oneself to be jolly just because it happens to be marked on the calendar.

I think it's phony to force oneself to be jolly just because it happens to be marked on the calendar.

Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our "appropriate smallness.

C. S. Lewis wrote that in prayer we must "lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

turn off the bullshit for the moment, Jack. Turn off that lawyer brain of yours and the thinking three steps ahead and the self-absorption and that overriding love of money you have, and answer me seriously and honestly.

it was somehow wonderful of her to be, in every detail, herself.

Wipe your mouth, there's still a tiny bit of bullshit around your lips.

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece.