Genuineness Quotes

“Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“I am not afraid of people who say all the wrong things that make others gasp in disbelief. I am afraid of the people who say all the right things that make others bow in admiration. It is incredibly easy to say all the right things. We all know exactly what the majority of people want to believe and want to hear. All we have to do is give them what they want, they will bow before us. Anybody can do that. I am more afraid of people who would like to persuade me into admiration, than of people who are simply being people; sinning openly and talking like drunken thieves. That's who they are on the outside, it's also who they are on the inside.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw because I'm not trying to sell myself to anybody.”
― J. Merridew, Teenage Idol

“Who we are is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see. You might really hate who you actually are, so then you create a sub-genus type of yourself for other people to see. But that never changes who you are. The sub-genus type won't change your genus. The only way we change who we are is by looking at ourselves in the mirror long enough to make us vomit over our disgusting waywardness and long enough to fall in love with our strengths. But you can't just fall in love with your strengths. You also need to vomit over your hypocrisies and all of your other bullshit. And you can't just vomit, either. You also have to clean it up and embrace yourself afterwards. This is how you change your genus.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Be (with) someone that promotes a healthy state of being: mind, body, and soul.”
― Kierra C.T. Banks

“Anyone can just speak words, but only one that is tried-and-true can mean them.”
― Terry a O'Neal

“One genuine criticism is more precious than a thousand false praises!”
― Avijeet Das

“Bad days will occur but always have good intentions. Being genuine is liberating to yourself and much appreciated by others.”
― Tyconis D. Allison Ty

“Feedback is essential to growth. Be aware of the difference between genuine and faulty characters. It’s hard to tell who is conforming to others opinions and who is speaking out of intellect and honesty to bring awareness to the people surrounding them. I have always fought to be the latter. The former has always made me withdraw from society.”
― Kristin Michelle Elizabeth

“Consistency is genuinely improving yourself to become a good match for those with whom you are in relationships while distancing yourself from people when their actions become too toxic.”
― Dexter A. Daniels, Consistent, Not Different: Why We Stray from the Path and Reasons to Return

“I like to play outside of the box they have made for me. I was born this way. That's how my brain works. Create from scratch and grow an extraordinary solution to an inimitable opportunity- enthusiastically answer a question that wasn't asked yet. A consummate, authentic existence in a vacuum. No apologies.”
― Sara Rose Snelling

“It is really a fantastic thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the genuine probation.”
― Prof.Salam Al Shereida

“I think as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be — not the women we think they should be.”
― Jada Pinkett Smith

“Vulnerability is the heartbeat of genuine love.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“If your heart has a story to tell, there’s a heart that needs to hear it.”
― Debra Landwehr Engle

“You should have seen him,” she said. “A real ladies’ man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“Those who aim high know what it takes to feel the skies on the tip of their wings and would encourage you to fly with them. Those who sour grape from below would want nothing but for people to fall for that is their only means to feel taller.”
― Erwin D. Maramat

“I was never meant to be normal and neither were you. There's no such thing as normal anyway.”
― Emilyann Allen (pseudonyms Emilyann Phoenix and Emilyann Girdner)

“Ari [Up] hides nothing from our audiences: if she’s in a bad mood, she shows it, and if we happen to be on stage when she’s not happy, she just does a shit gig. There’s no
You’ve paid money to see this so I’m going to give you a good time, or I’m not going to let the band down – she’s just grumpy and uncommunicative. This is a good thing in many ways, we’re against faking it, we tell it like it is. People in bands are just like the audience: they have good days and bad days, we’re not pantomime or theatre, we’re no different to anyone else. We don’t see ourselves as entertainers, trying to make the audience forget their troubles for forty minutes. We see ourselves as warriors. We’d rather people confronted their anger and dissatisfaction and did something about it. Like Luis Buñuel said, ‘I’m not here to entertain you, I’m here to make you feel uncomfortable.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“I'm not full of shit! Don't put turds in my mouth.”
― Brian Spellman, Psych Ward Cyrano

“Do more at every opportunity to give, laugh with, play, inspire and pray with people.

After God, you may be all that they need.”
― Adeyemi Taiwo Eunice

“Abbie was so genuine you could smell it on her like a fragrance.”
― Dan Salerno, 20 Short Ones: 20 Tales of Hope

“You can collect many friends by hiding your reality; but you can earn few genuine friends by showing your reality.”
― Sandhya Jane

“Within hospital walls, more prayers echo than in the confines of church sanctuaries. In today's world, I've witnessed numerous places of worship in underprivileged regions, where hope seems to be exchanged for fleeting illusions. Kind hearts wear tattoos, while misguided souls drape themselves in rosaries. Beggars, seeking generosity, choose the warmth of bars over the solemnity of church pews. It's a testament to the essence of humanity, where authenticity holds more value than mere appearances”
― CARSON ANEKEYA

“Authenticity is the fragrance of a soul at peace with itself.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero