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Quotes About Genuine

A show of interest, as with every other principle of human relations, must be sincere. It must pay off not only for the person showing the interest, but for the person receiving the attention. It is a two-way street—both parties benefit.
~ Dale Carnegie
we cannot say too often that in the Sermon on the Mount we are not looking at laws, but at a life: a life in which the genuine laws of God eventually become naturally fulfilled.
~ Dallas Willard
Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.
~ Dallas Willard
El afecto actúa como antídoto del miedo. «Si me demuestras un afecto genuino –señaló el Dalai Lama–, entonces y automáticamente siento que esa persona está siendo muy amable conmigo, y por eso confío en ella. Si no tienes miedo, te relajas, te sientes seguro».
~ Daniel Goleman
I love you. Every time you said it, you really said it. It wasn't like a sequel where Hollywood just lines up the same actors and hopes it works again. It was like a remake with a new director and crew trying something else and starting from scratch.
~ Daniel Handler
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't lose friends, because real friends can never be lost. You lose people masquerading as friends, and you're better for it.
~ Mandy Hale
Its only about realizing the importance of a genuine person. You may run for beauty and outward appearance but you will soon understand that they fade away and what remains is the person.
~ Amelia Crown
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
let us go somewhere where we can do some genuine, blackguard, poverty-stricken drinking, with no false gingerbread glitter thrown over everything!
~ William Gibson
Toughness has been rather out of fashion, as a masculine virtue, and Takeshi simultaneously radiates it and suggests its wounded core. There can in fact be no depiction of genuine toughness (not brutality but a sort of excess of substance, of soul-stuff) without this concomitant indication of that wound, else the piece becomes simply the pornography of fascism.
~ William Gibson
She loves you, the Prince cried. She loves you still and you love her, so think of that--think of this too: in all this world, you might have been happy, genuinely happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, not really, no matter what the storybooks say, but you could have had it, and so, I would think, no one will ever suffer a loss as great as you.
~ William Goldman
On the contrary, they supported it with genuine enthusiasm. Somehow it imbued them with a new hope and a new confidence and an astonishing faith in the future of their country.
~ William L. Shirer
You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior's discipline.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
a genuine, loving relationship with lasting potential will reveal itself in the ordinary moments of daily living.
~ Chris Bell
It's about being genuine with it and being yourself—just bringing out the creativeness, not doing the same thing everybody else is doing, regardless of whether it don't break through or pop off immediately.
~ Chris Norris
When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them, you're meeting their representative.
~ Chris Rock
Following them for a few blocks, Allan started to get the feeling they were more likely just co-stars in the live sex show on offer at the theater, rather than a genuine couple.
~ Christa Faust
The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel.
~ Christina Baker Kline
There was in her the glow of the real diamond among glass imitations.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I've yet to meet the person who aspires to be phony or invisible in her closest relationships.
~ lerner harriet iii
Today I will love myself by genuinely caring for my own well-being. I will choose to love those people who deserve my love and respect its strength and power.
~ lerner rokelle
The quietness of it was weird: real fights happened without a sound track.
~ Lev Grossman