Quotes About Genuineness

There is no artifice, no manipulation, no games.

No scrim, no filter, no bullshit. She wasn't all bound up in there, gagged and furious and resentful beneath some high-pitched shrink-wrapped mess of pleasantry.

We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties

Our concern must be to live while we're alive... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Francis focused on the woman's eyes. They really were quite free of guile, he reflected. Unusual in the females of his acquaintance, and therefore refreshing.

While I throw off the ceremony, I hold the faster to the kindness.

It's hard not to like someone who's genuinely interested in you. Or genuinely interested in things, in general.

There was, they conceded, no point in pretending to be other than they were, as it seemed their presence was not secret and never had been.

I don't say it was likely -- I only say it is true.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel -- as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can -- then I am nothing.

Don't those girls know that beneath this goofy exterior is someone honost and generally awesome in every way? I'm a winner dammit

I never went for the talkers.

She spoke mostly of her work with the ACLU, and I thought: She is not talking about anything real. And I think by that I mean that she was not talking about how she felt

A great thing he could never do, but he had longed to do a true thing, to imagine sincere and genuine pages.

Has conseguido lo que pocos consiguen en la vida: aparentar exactamente lo que eres, y que parezca que lo aparentas.

Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

whatever it is, stay how you are

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.

Search for celebrations that feel authentic to you. If you feel awkward or phony when celebrating, your attempts will backfire. Your brain doesn't want to feel awkward—it wants to feel good. Celebrations are personal. What makes me feel good (and not lame) is probably different than what makes you feel good (and not lame).

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

I'm a relationship guy. I'm not about that 'rapper life.'

I didn't want to be one of these rappers that holds his chain up just faking like he has money. I wanted more.