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Quotes About Genuine

I'm really scary in reality. Most of the time.
~ Robert Pattinson
By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.
~ Seth Godin
I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.
~ Shania Twain
Usually when fans find out about my music for the first time, they're like "Oh this guy's actually for real!" And it's just like yea, you found Waldo.
~ SonReal
When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!
~ Mark Twain
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
~ Mark Twain
Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.
~ Markus Zusak
Sometimes people are beautiful Not in looks Not in what they say Just in what they are
~ Markus Zusak
But maybe 'the brutality of fact' isn't a phrase that precisely suits what he does. Perhaps, 'the awkwardness of truth' would be nearer the mark. …
~ Martin Gayford
Speaking a lot about something does not in the least guarantee that understanding is thus furthered. On the contrary, talking at great length about something covers things over and brings what is understood into an illusory clarity, that is, the unintelligibility of the trivial. But to keep silent does not mean to be mute ... one who is mute still has the tendency to speak. ... Authentic silence is possible only in genuine discourse. In order to be silent, Dasein must have something to say.
~ Martin Heidegger
Authenticity soothes the soul.
~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
Genuine, authentic relating enlivens the spirit.
~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical life, in literature, or in art, must follow the rules without knowing them.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Do mesmo modo que o papel-moeda circula no lugar da prata, também no mundo, no lugar da estima verdadeira e da amizade autêntica, circulam as suas demonstrações exteriores e os seus gestos imitados do modo mais natural possível. Por outro lado, poder-se-ia perguntar se há pessoas que de facto merecem essa estima e essa amizade. Em todo o caso, dou mais valor aos abanos de cauda de um cão leal do que a cem daquelas demonstrações e gestos.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
although the absurd, as a rule, predominates, and it seems impossible that the voice of the individual can ever penetrate through the chorus of the befooling and the befooled, there yet remains to the genuine works of every age a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence...
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I feel a rush of anger at those grumbling intellectuals and professional dissenters who constantly carp about this great country. Frankly, they can only do it because they are allowed to. And they are allowed to because, for all our imperfections, we are a genuine democracy.
~ Arundhati Roy
Simone de Beauvoir's words echo in my head: "It is in the recognition of the genuine conditions of our lives that we gain the strength to act and our motivation for change.
~ Audre Lorde
Unscripted, unedited, and wholly authentic people are almost universally admired, especially if they have flaws, are not afraid to make live, red-blooded mistakes, and rather than trying are busy simply being.
~ Augusten Burroughs
And that was my first clue that Dennis was of superior mental health. He had no reason to try and mask his awkwardness with a stoic face, no need to pretend to be blasé.
~ Augusten Burroughs
If everything became 'artificial,' then nothing was 'artificial.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what they think i am. And i don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me,so i can feel it too. - Sam
~ Stephen Chbosky
Si le gusto a alguien,quiero que sea mi verdadero yo el que le guste,no lo que piense que soy
~ Stephen Chbosky