Quotes About Genuineness

Vulgarity consists in striving to be what we are not.

Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

Kendimize isimler vermeyelim, yapt???m?z i?lerle varolal?m, bunun d???nda kalan bütün sahte unvanlar?, kurumlar?, insan?n kendini üstün bir ?ey saymas?na yolaçan düzenleri yok sayal?m...

Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time

Authentic religion is not a theology test. It's a love test.

Una foto comunica qualcosa se è sincera, se lo scambio non è stato acquistato.

May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to. —C. S. Lewis

In the same way, metrics can record the frequency of our church attendance, the regularity of our Bible reading and the exact amount of our tithing, but they can never gauge the genuineness of any of them, or whether they are any better than "the noise of the solemn assemblies" against which the prophets fulminated.

Young people never say anything straight. You can tell they're being honest if they hide behind a laugh.

Real life can never have a written lie all over it.

Be — don't try to become

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

When we become simply a promoter or a defender of a particular belief, something within us dies.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life." Oswald Chambers

Perfection isn't a requirement of friendship, but showing people who you are definitely is.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

You need not laugh; 'tis perfectly true.

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

You've got a deep core of sweetness that's quite incorruptible.

Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.

Era lo bastante listo para conocerse a sí mismo, lo bastante valiente para ser él mismo y lo bastante insensato para cambiarse a sí mismo y, al mismo tiempo, seguir manteniéndose auténtico. En ese sentido era prácticamente único, [...]