Genuine Quotes

• Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Thinking

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.22, New World Library

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• One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

  Jack Dee

  Years, Firsts, Six

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• We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

  Richard Davidson

  Happiness, Different, Needs

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• The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a foundation, a basis of knowing that gives confidence to the ego. To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be
  released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative dammed up energy is out, making room for the positive energy, genuine Light, to flood in.

  Marion Woodman

  Light, Expression, Breathing

  "The Pregnant Virgin". Book by Marion Woodman, 1985.

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• To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.

  Rumi

  Children, World, Genuine Smiles

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• Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, World, Almighty

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.81

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• I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Important, Doe

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Power of Compassion: A Collection of Lectures”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Mean, Differences, Tolerance

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• A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  An address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Washington D.C, March 31, 1968.

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• Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Meditation, Quiet

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• Genuine peace is based on inner peace, because you cannot build peace on the basis of anger

  Dalai Lama

  Inner Peace, Bases

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• Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Knowing, Joy, Needs

  Eknath Easwaran (1996). “Love Never Faileth: Eknath Easwaran on St. Francis, St. Augustine, St. Paul and Mother Teresa”, p.30, Nilgiri Press

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• A man can be beautiful physically, mentally, or personality wise. True beauty, though, is in the spirit. A genuine man who understands right and wrong, with a strong sense of self is beautiful. A man who can be compassionate and caring, but firm and wise. Someone who can do the right thing no matter who's around to see it. Even if the deed is unseen and unrecognized. That is a beautiful man. One today is worth two tomorrows.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

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• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Life And Love, Work

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• Genuine happiness is hard to miss.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Missing, Genuine Happiness, Hard

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Powerful, Voice, Miracle

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• A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Smile, Men, Cells

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• There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

  Po Bronson

  Positive, Inspiring, Spiritual

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• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  T. S. Eliot

  Communication, Writing, Poetry

  1929 Dante.

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• The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Care, Greater

  Max Lucado (2006). “Grace for the Moment Daily Bible-NCV”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

  Amelia Earhart

  Appreciation, Women, Home

  "Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by George Palmer Putnam, 1939.

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• The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Apathy

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• 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 feeling.

  Bell Hooks

  Dream, Real, Commitment

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