Quotes About Genuineness

Demasiada sinceridad te hace parecer falso.

No demuestres humildad a menos que la sientas.

But false niceness can never and will never produce an authentic, deeply meaningful relationship, just like weeds won't magically produce zinnias.

Joy is one of the only emotions you can't contrive.

One time when a group of dignitaries was visiting, Elsa implored Albert to dress up. He refused, stating that if they wanted to see him, he was there, but if they had come to see his clothes, they were in the closet.

Be true to yourself" - Ven Zallow

I don't tweet or blog or order pizza with arugula on top. So, yeah, call me old school.

What Richard wants is what I want, what everyone in the world wants. To be accepted, to be loved for who we are, not for some playacting phony version of ourselves.

One always saw and sees through pretense.

When you spoke to her there wasn't any mystery. In herself she was all the explanation I felt she needed. And that is rare, isn't it? To be explained by yourself, by what you are and what you do, and not by what you've done, or were, or by what people think you might be or might become.

know that what you've done is twist something natural into something else. And you can never trust an unnatural thing.

we'd given up trying to fool anyone, even ourselves.

Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are. - Agrado from "Todo Sobre Mi Madre

It costs a lot to be authentic. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.

Fingimos lo que somos; seamos lo que fingimos.

Style is not a replacement for substance, and cannot camouflage a lack of substance.

I have tried to be honest with you, although I suppose that you would really have been more interested in my not being honest. Some of these things happened, and some were dreams. They were all true, as I understood truth. They are all real, as I understood reality.

There should be an ease and clarity to anything that's real and from the heart. Things that are true shouldn't have tricks.

None talked that common, false, cold, hollow talk which makes the heart deny the yes it breathes.

I will live my life from now on, I will not perform it.

each technique carries a consistent message more important than any method: that each act that expresses trust in ourselves and belief in the validity of our own experience is always the right path to follow. Each act that is manipulative or filled with pretense is always self-destructive.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.

She was very easy to please, because she took joy in the smallest things, but exacting, too, because that small thing must be authentic, and wondrous in its small self, and not any kind of bullshit. She could detect bullshit from a hillside away. But then she took people at face value and expected the best of them until proven otherwise.