Genuine Life Quotes

• Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.

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  Akiane Kramarik

  Gratitude   Acceptance   Life Is Precious  

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• An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to do the right thing, even when nobody would find out otherwise, it grows a little. Every time you act with compassion, relinquish your right to strike back, take a courageous stand, admit fault or accept responsibility, it grows a little.

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  Steve Goodier

  Responsibility   Compassion   Decision  

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

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  Albert Einstein

  Life   Motivational   God  

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

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  Lydia M. Child

  Destiny   Battle   Doe  

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• And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

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  Boris Pasternak

  Genuine   Ripple   Genuine Life  

  Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

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• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

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  William Morris

  Inspirational   Life   Positive  

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

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

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  Mother Teresa

  Love   Mother   Thinking  

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

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• There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

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  Robert Bly

  Adults   Culture   Able  

  Source: www.utne.com

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• The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.

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  Randolph Bourne

  Dominance   Genuine   Force  

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1919). “Untimely Papers”

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