Quotes about Genuineness

What we have to be is what we are.

We are warmed by the fire, not by the smoke of the fire. We are carried over the sea by a ship, not by the wake of a ship. So too, what we are is to be sought in the invisible depths of our own being, not in our outward reflection in our own acts.

Love, then, must be true to the ones we love and to ourselves, and also to its own laws. I cannot be true to myself if I pretend to have more in common than I actually have with someone whom I may like for a selfish and unworthy reason.

When our life feeds on unreality, it must starve.

We are warmed by fire, not by the smoke of the fire. We are carried over the sea by a ship, not by the wake of a ship. So too, what we are is to be sought in the invisible depths of our own being, not in our outward reflection in our own acts. We must find our real selves not in the froth stirred up by the impact of our being upon the beings around us, but in our own soul which is the principle of all our acts.

The way to truth stands open only to those without intentions.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.

The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.