Quotes About Genuineness

She had a way of bringing out genuineness in the least genuine of people.

When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.

I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

For the first time, in Golconda, she had practiced Larry's choice of withdrawing if the people were not of quality. Of preferring solitude to the effort of pretending he was interested in them.

I have no longer the strength to act what I do not feel.

No wonder I am rarely natural in life. Natural to what, true to which condition of soul, to which layer? How can I be sincere if each moment I must choose between five or six souls?

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

Mieux vaut une vraie tristesse qu'une fausse joie.

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

On ne peut être à la fois sincère et le paraître.

Ayn? zamanda hem içten olmak, hem de öyle görünmek olas? deÄŸil.

Mieux vaut être haï pour ce que l'on est, qu'aimé pour ce que l'on n'est pas.

Do not pose in your own presence. Id est: do not affect the qualities and virtues you would like to have but have not.

Un autentico cretino, difficile a trovarsi in questi tempi in cui i cretini si camuffano da intelligenti.

Let this thought sink deep into our hearts: The grace of our Lord abounds exceedingly with faith and love. As we cultivate faith in God's love, our hearts will be filled with love toward others. The genuineness of our faith in the love of God must be shown by love in our daily lives at home.

but can one "get" an edge any more than one can "get" a sense of humor? Or do you fake it, the way a humorless businessman memorizes jokes and is considered "a riot," leaving parties before he runs out of material?

I say, "I hate this 'keepin' it real' stuff. What's it all about, anyway? Real is what is. If you have to keep something the way it is, then it's not going with the natural flow. That's lying. I mean, if you can't change because you think this is the way it always was and anything else would be phony, that's stupid.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

Words are never trite when they're spoken with sincerity

She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.

Many lives are almost scandal-proof. Vulnerability comes in pretending to be someone you are not.

Why do you think posers pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real. And they know their very desire for it disqualifies them.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he doesn't possess.