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Genuineness Quotes

David Foster Wallace quote: "Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as..."
...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome. David Foster Wallace
Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love. M. Scott Peck
Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts. Alice Miller
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good... Bell Hooks
Alice Duer Miller quote: "Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on."
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. Alice Duer Miller
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. Francois Fenelon
T. S. Eliot quote: "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel quote: "Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right..."
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. Mao Zedong
William Throsby Bridges quote: "Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought..."
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. William Throsby Bridges
Walter Benjamin quote: "Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal..."
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. Walter Benjamin
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. Daisaku Ikeda
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. Leon Wieseltier
Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false. P. D. James
No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is... dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals, with loving one place-home-above all others. I embrace the world on a scale that allows genuine love-the small places like a town, a neighborhood, a... Dean Koontz

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