Quotes About Genuineness

Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.

What an important lesson for all of us! The words that come out of our mouths are a direct indicator of what is in our hearts. Idle

I ought to have guessed that a person like her--a person who you could tell had a deep inner certitude of self which comes from being all of one piece, of not being shreds and patches and old cogwheels held together with pieces of rusty barbed wire and spit and bits of string, like most of us--I ought to have guessed that that kind of person would not be surprised into answering a question she didn't want to answer.

I've been keeping up appearances all my life. Now I'm going in for realities.

Are you making fun of me? asked Emily gravely.

This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.

It ain't a mistake to behave like a human being once in a while

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. —Groucho Marx

Always performing who they are instead of being it

here's the thing about friends, I mean REAL friends: You can't just put up a poster at school and advertise for somebody and then hope you find the perfect one. It might work, I guess, but you'd look so pathetic and desperate that no one would want to be your friend, and so it would be kind of pointless

But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.

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She couldn't even fake being miserable for Andy's sake.

any departure from reality that could easily be avoided ought to be avoided.

I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.

I would choose to live a century in a dark room instead of hanging out with fake friends.

Robbing someone of their smile and putting it on your own face doesn't make you happy.

It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges.

A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.

People say, like, "I love when you smile because part of your mouth goes up," then I never organically smile again.

I just can't smile at people for money.

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.

I cannot say where I will be in 5 yearsscratch that, tomorrowBut I know that wherever you find me, I will remain true to myself with a genuine smile on my face and happiness in my heart.