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Quotes About Genuine

By example. By being genuine. Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.
~ Roland Merullo
The two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we all are heir as individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not made up of two isolated, individual experiences, but a genuine union.
~ Rollo May
If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost join you in a dialogue.
~ Ron McMillan
I cannot refrain from doubting that there exist any genuine realizations of our deepest character except war and illness, those two infinities of nightmare.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.
~ Lucy Grealy
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn't rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
His platform includes a prolife agenda, for instance, which "values the sanctity of every human soul," and also "believes in the greatness of the American family." The word family, on his glossy-but-down-home webpage in its hues of red, white and blue, is a code for you, where you also means right, deserving, genuine and better than those others, you know, the ones who aren't you.
~ Lydia Millet
Your true personality is not the outer you but the inner you not the person you present to the world but the person you hide from the world
~ ETC Wanyanwu
When you promote and market yourself, your service, your product - it cannot be from a script or textbook - it must be from the heart.
~ Joseph C. Kunz, Jr.
Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.
~ Rose Troche
Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.
~ Edward Eggleston
What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.
~ Brad Warner
Small talk is like the air that shatters the stalactites into dust again. I do not participate. I wait. I laugh. I am aware that shallowness disintegrates the deeper undercurrents everyone seeks. The underground rivers of dreams, of deeper and deeper selves running underneath. I prefer my submarine region.
~ Anais Nin
C'est dans l'extraordinaire que je me sens le plus naturel.
~ Andre Gide
del final, además, es un auténtico
~ Andrea Camilleri
I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.
~ Andy Warhol
It matters what's true. - Ann Druyan
~ Ann Druyan
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
~ Samuel Johnson
Its not bragging if its true.
~ Sara Shepard
You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one day, Morgan said something and you laughed, and I remember thinking it was really cool because it meant something. You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.
~ Sarah Dessen
It is the greatest and most genuine of pleasures to observe a great mind in sympathy with our own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Glitter is coined to meet the moments rage; The genuine lives on from age to age.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm sure this is a diversionary ploy. But that doesn't mean it isn't real." -Abe Sapien
~ John Arcudi