Quotes About Genuineness

I really believe that to live inauthentically is to live in a sort of hell.

I asked Doss if she had no regard for appearancs. She said, 'I've been keeping up appearances all my life. Now I'm going in for realities. Appearances can go hang!

The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

truth is reality

They are not burdened by any need to hide. They do not have to slink around in the shadows. They do not have to construct new lies to hide old ones. They need waste no effort covering tracks or maintaining disguises. And ultimately they find that the energy required for the self-discipline of honesty is far less than the energy required for secretiveness. The more honest one is, the easier it is to continue being honest, just as the more lies one has told, the more necessary it is to lie again.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

You're much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren't," Mrs. Murry said.

Madeleine L'Engle

Be who you seem to be.

The real me isn't the person I describe, no the real me is the me revealed by my actions.

Transparency is the idea that people's behavior and demeanor—the way they represent themselves on the outside—provides an authentic and reliable window into the way they feel on the inside.

Here was the downside to Shirley Polykoff's world. You could get what you wanted by faking it, but then you would never know whether it was you or the bit of fakery that made the difference.

I never had any great desire to be well-known or to sell a lot of books. … Maybe that's paradoxically one of the reasons why I've done well. People sense that I'm doing things out of pure enjoyment. I'm not pandering to an audience or following a formula. I'm just writing about cool stuff that interests me, and people respond to that.

Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.

There is no secret ingredient

When you give appreciation IN ORDER TO get something– it's manipulation and people can sense it. Appreciate genuinely.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

There can never be someone greater at being you than you.

Gratitude must come from a place of true sincerity to be effective. Without sincerity, the experience is incomplete.

Never start your gratitude moment with an unthankful heart or out of necessity. Gratitude must be sincere.

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

Be you. It's life's best offer to others.

Be as advertised.

The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.