Quotes About Genuine

There could, in principle, be an institution that looked like what we call science but in which there was no genuine responsiveness to the world. Experiments would be no more than expensive PR exercises, and theories would change via a process of negotiation between factions. How do we know that our own science is not like this?

Nothing could be more impolite. To say, "Is your sheep genuine?" would be a worse breach of manners.

Love reconnects us to life. The truth of Christ's life is that life is love and love is life. There is no genuine life without love. Self-interest suffocates life. Life implodes when self-interest is at the core. This is why the kingdom of self is based on death. Ultimately, taking care of Number One takes care of no one. For the only way to truly care for myself is to give myself in love of others. There I will find my truest and deepest fulfillment.

The pursuit of comfort is basically the avoidance of life and not only denies us genuine pleasure but also short-circuits the entirety of our well-being.

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in the air, so in the picture, my feet are off the ground. Later, I asked you why you wanted me to do that, and you told me it was the only way to get me to forget about the expression on my face. You were right. I am completely unposed, completely genuine. In my mind's eye, I picture myself like that, reacting to you.

It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.

She still dotted her i's with full circles and felt genuinely thankful for every sunny day. I believed more in dark clouds, in sharp dots, in needing proof in order to feel trust.

a genuine, tee-hee-hee giggle...it's like he's being tickled by life

Don't look at the package. Look at what's inside.

Real change, eternal change, is when your actions are meant to draw you closer to your Lord. The first act of genuine turning is recognizing that what you have done on your own, what you are capable of doing, is not enough. The second act is acknowledging who you are turning toward.

Portnoy was not Roth and he was not real, but in him is enshrined a genuine Rothian freedom, created by Roth, once impossible, now fully realized, a freedom which anyone can now easily access.

I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.

I'm a real actress.

Well, I don't have an agenda.

I want to be as real as possible. I aim to be that.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

I know I may appear spacey, but that's how I am.

I'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Behavior that looks religious but is devoid of genuine love is abhorrent to God. God loves an honest agnostic more than a religious hypocrite.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

What I want are words that reflect my heart, not my cleverness.