quotes about Genuineness

“It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.”

“...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.”

“To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.”

“I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.”

“One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.”

Source : "Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect film stars" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

“The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.”

“I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.”

Source : Karen Traviss (2009). “Ally”, p.4, Harper Collins

“My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.”

“Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.”

“Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com