Quotes About Genuineness

Suppress hate; love generously. Work passionately, live honorably, and love genuinely.

Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else.

If you're an oak you don't pretend you are a flower

The constant assertion of masculinity is always the most obvious tell of a fake. You do not constantly assert what you know you have.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Never be cool. Never try to be cool. Never worry what the cool people think. Head for the warm people. Life is warmth. You'll be cool when you're dead.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you.

An online profile of your best friend is not your best friend. A status update about a day in the park is not a day in the park. And the desire to tell the world about how happy you are is not how happy you are.

It seems that you have spent all your life saying things that you aren't really thinking. This is one of your barriers.

we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful who we pretend to be.

In order to find the people who like you, it is first necessary to be you.

Never be cool. Never try to be cool. Never worry what the cool people think. Head for the warm people. Life is warm. You'll be cool when you're dead.

Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

I am the genuine article, therefore I don't have to try. I just have to be. You, on the other hand, have to try any passing bandwagon, because what else have you got?

He would like to be held in the arms of this clear-eyed, clear-voiced girl, who seems to be the only creature among all of his acquaintances who cares for something beside self-glorification and the gratification of her own desires.

But sometimes the way to get involved is to just live your life and be yourself with all your values intact.

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.

Love is always real, even when it doesn't last.

I craved . . . an ineffable state of being I can only describe as domestic integrity. This integrity has something to do with being able to not feel like an imposter in your home and, therefore, in your life.

Don't make friends with shadows; because shadows cannot smile!

Hardly you can see someone on the streets of truth.

l'altezza dei monti non si misura con gli strumenti dei cartografi, come il valore delle persone non da ciò che fanno o sembrano, ma da ciò che sono.

I'm none of those things. I'm just me.