Quotes About Genuine

I've had a lot of hurdles to overcome in my musical journey, but since coming onto the scene with 5SOS, we've really had to fight to be respected as genuine artists.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Most people choose appearance over reality.

The ghosts, as we call them – and as I shall call them in my letters from now on... It seems to me that the world is full of women whose men don't satisfy their need for affection, eroticism, understanding etc... I haven't made the final decision, but I'm convinced that the happiest and most genuine course for me would be to go over to the ghost side.

You don't advertise your religion by wearing a label. You do it by living a life. AMISH PROVERB

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

He was serene, fulfilled, the real thing, the person no one wants to hear about, a happy man.

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

I learned something recently: our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

I'm a true believer in not forcing anything. I hate forced art, forced anything.

I cut fake people faster than Bugatti reaches its 100 miles speed. I often tell myself, this is called "Art of Living".

I don't want to sit there and be like, 'Oh, I don't care what the audience thinks.' It does matter to me. I just want them to think, to be honest.

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. I bet this kind of thing does not happen to heroin addicts. I bet that when serious heroin addicts go to purchase their heroin, they do not tolerate waiting in line while some dilettante in front of them orders a hazelnut smack-a-cino with cinnamon sprinkles.

For something so important in our lives, friendship is woefully unexamined and under-studied. I think we deserve better. If we value friendship as much as we say we do, then let's get serious. Think of how much more genuine and authentic our friendships could be," she said, "if we just apply the right metrics to them.

Those who smile with their eyes are surely the most likeable of people.

Alas, there truly are conspirators in this world, flourishing wherever light doesn't shine. Moreover, they developed a great technique to distract from their own plots – they help spread a stinging miasma of paranoid ravings that genuine schemes can hide behind!

La gente vera non parla mica così formale.

Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.

Cavendish jolts up, riding knee-to-knee. 'His reliquary!' George is upset, astonished. 'To part with it like this! It is a piece of the true Cross!' 'We'll get him another. I know a man in Pisa makes them ten for five florins and a round dozen for cash up front. And you get a certificate with St Peter's thumbprint, to say they're genuine.