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Quotes about Genuineness

What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
- John Eldredge
True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
- Anonymous
if the content of your speech is not authentic, talking or texting on a device doesn't mean you're communicating with another person.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real
- Thomas Merton
What we have to be is what we are.
- Thomas Merton
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.
- Thomas Merton
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.
- Thomas Merton
When our life feeds on unreality, it must starve.
- Thomas Merton
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.
- Thomas Merton
The way to truth stands open only to those without intentions.
- Carl Jung
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
- Francis de Sales
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
- Samuel Johnson