Quotes About Genuineness

So what makes you angry?` `Stupid people. Fake people. Mean people. Death. I worry about dying all the time. Like, all the time.

Whether you're faking one or the other it isn't worth the state you get yourself in.

They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things.

They DO live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year's standing.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it

My Country is Truth.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Children are not good at living a lie. Children have too much energy, are too impatient, and ask too many questions.

If you're sorry, folks can tell. No use piling on the verbiage.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.

If you win the adoration of others by pretending to be someone you're not, you may gain celebrity or high office—but you will lose out on the fulfillment of a life best-suited to your attributes and abilities.

And who can give to another the things which he has not himself?

A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I think, for me, I need to be myself." Another pause. "And I've never been a kind of a hyperactive, runaround kind of person. I think one of the greatest gifts that we can give anybody is the gift of one more honest adult in that person's life—whether [the recipient] be a child or an adult. "And so, for me, being quiet and slow is being myself, and that is my gift.

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.