Quotes About Genuine Life

#1. Altruism is the surest and most effective way to bring about genuine life satisfaction.

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. 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.

Randolph Bourne

#3. We're leading people to Jesus, not to ourselves or to our awesome church. Keeping the focus on Christ ensures that genuine life change happens and lasts.

Carey Nieuwhof

#4. We must live a genuine life in order to discover personal happiness and self-fulfillment. Understanding that a person is living a lie is the first step into realizing what is possible. No matter how frightful such a proposition is, we must dare to be an original self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. 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 ... . And this was most vexing of all," he noted, "HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.

Jon Krakauer

#6. 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.

Akiane Kramarik

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

Lydia M. Child

#8. When people meet me, I hope that they say this: 'This is a guy who, number one, loves the Lord, but he also loves people, and he wants to make a difference in people's life. And he wants to help everyone he comes in contact with, and he is genuine, he is real, and he cares about people.'

Tim Tebow

#9. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Norman Cousins

#10. By the word genuine I mean biblical, for only in the Bible do we have truth that is indisputably reliable. For this reason, the Bible must be the guide and test for all of our experiences in the spiritual life, for biblical spirituality is the only genuine spirituality.

Charles C. Ryrie

#11. You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life
a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

Thomas Bernhard

#12. Genuine surrender says, "Father, if this problem, pain, sickness, or circumstance is needed to fulfill your purpose and glory in my life or in another's, please don't take it away." This level of maturity does not come easy.

Rick Warren

#13. I'm such a perfectionist and I like to have everything just right, but at the same time I try to be as real and as genuine as I can be in my life and in my career.

Josh Turner

#14. The pressures of life and influence of society have caused many to become something and someone they are not. Remove the layers. Dig through the dust and debris. Find the genuine jewel - YOU.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#15. The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. As a very basic guideline, when someone else asks for your yes in a situation that is good for them, but not for you, your yes is not required and may be harmful to your ability to say any genuine yes to life.

Jane Meredith

#17. Your genuine happiness does not come from other people, activities or things, it comes from living a meaningful life - a life that is in alignment with your values and is beneficial.

John Bruna

#18. Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

Daisaku Ikeda

#19. 1. Do what you say you're gonna do
2. Show up!
3. Give genuine praise whenever you can
4. Never say sorry when you don't mean it
5. Never use sarcasm in email (and use the corny ass emoticons)

Matthew Lasar

#20. You're hard sometimes, but you're genuine and easy to love. You give people everything you have to give, Silas. You're a rough diamond amongst pearls. You look like a dirty stone amongst the sheen, but your value far exceeds the silky dull shine of a pearl.

Criss Copp

#21. If you have something genuine to say to another person that would make them feel super awesome about themselves and make their day ... SAY IT! The world needs more of that!
But no fake BS ... the world doesn't need more of that. No.

Tanya Masse

#22. The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

Anthony Daniels

#23. The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us - the capacity to open ourselves and say yes without reserve. Such moments of pure openheartedness bring us as close to natural perfection as we can come in this life.

John Welwood

#24. A genuine education must somehow serve the wings of spirit and imagination that each child brings to life.

Michael Meade

#25. I've had to create companies that I believe in 100%. These are companies I feel will make a genuine difference. Then I have to be willing to find the time myself to talk about them, promote them and market them. I don't want to spend my life doing something that I'm not proud of.

Richard Branson

#26. I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman ...

Sara Coleridge

#27. I think glamour has a genuine appeal, has a genuine value. I'm not against glamour. But there's a kind of wonder in the stuff that gets edited away in the cords of life.

Virginia Postrel

#28. What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

Baruch Spinoza

#29. A deepening sense of one's sinfulness remains a touchstone of the genuine Christian life.

J.I. Packer

#30. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

Chogyam Trungpa

#31. My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

Prince William

#32. You have always understood and accepted my most genuine, most intimate impulses and responded to them with surprising accuracy. I wish all people turned into such mirrors for each other.

Igor Eliseev

#33. Mankind is perpetually the victim of a pointless and futile martydom, fretting life away in fruitless worries though failure to realise what limit is set to acquisition and to the growth of genuine pleasure

Seneca.

#34. What is needed is history, genuine history, multi-faceted history, 'thick description' history that takes seriously the full range of human life and culture.

N. T. Wright

#35. As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.

Jack Kornfield

#36. Allow others to talk about themselves instead of being obsessed about telling them or bragging about yourself and your possessions and achievements. Show a genuine interest in others and allow them to tell their story so you can share the conversation.

Archibald Marwizi

#37. For forgiveness to work in your life, it has to be genuine. It has to come from the heart. When it does, it is so powerful that bitterness fades away and you are able to see the "gifts" in what has happened. I also think forgiveness is a kind of humility." -Winsome Campbell-Green

Winsome Campbell-Green

#38. Genuine faith will produce genuine changes in your life.

Jim George

#39. Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment. It's the capacity to recognize clearly that every moment is a gift of life, a gift from the Earth and sky.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#40. We hope to help you discover Your Self; inspire you to live more passionate and sensitive life; helping you listen to your Soul, finding your-own space in this matrix of life, making a genuine contribution to humanity.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#41. Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

Wilfrid Sheed

#42. I fall in love with this life all over again. It's only when I try to live it myself that I have trouble. It never feels genuine.

Veronica Roth

#43. In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

Oskar Schlemmer

#44. American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right ... To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.

Walter B. Pitkin

#45. Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.

Edwina Currie

#46. Before, I always lived in anticipation ... that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

Etty Hillesum

#47. Those who met with greater economic success in life were responsible to help those in genuine need; but those who from lack of virtue failed to pull their own weight could expect no help from society.

Walter Isaacson

#48. Christ gave up his life for you so that you could have a genuine zeal to do good works. Paul calls upon Christians to be good works zealots or good works extremists - to be absolutely committed in every way to doing good for others.

Tim Challies

#49. Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive.

Fran Lebowitz

#50. No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can't decide to want anything, but what you want will at least in part be a result of a series of other choices and judgments you've made in your life to date.

Julian Baggini

#51. I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

Candice Accola

#52. A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#53. Religion" (a person's own efforts to find their way to God through being "good" or following rituals) is a poor substitute for true spiritual power: the life of God breathed into a human being, bringing genuine transformation.

Bob Hamp

#54. Bring relevance to the people before teaching them to be believers

Sunday Adelaja

#55. It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

Daisaku Ikeda

#56. What happens to those who live dangerously by being true to who they are?

Bryant McGill

#57. Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

Vincent Van Gogh

#58. Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

Lewis Mumford

#59. You never realised you appreciate a person until the day they're were gone, permanently

Diyar Harraz

#60. The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

Cameron Mathison

#61. Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.

Pope Benedict XVI

#62. Do everything with your whole heart, or not at all. Don't put up with lies or with people who lie to you. Don't risk hurting people just for the fun of it. And lastly, your best foot shouldn't be put forward; it should be with you at all times - right there beside the other one.

C. JoyBell C.

#63. We are all hungry for genuine connection and caring, and we will not get this unless we find our Soul's tribe.

If we don't find this, we'll kill ourselves, either by finding an addiction to mask the pain or by ignoring what we need to stay healthy.

Christiane Northrup

#64. For all his dour black and stern expressions, all the whispered rumors of trick swords and cold brutality, he did not appear worthy of genuine fear. He appeared bored with life. Bored and in need of a nap.

Renee Ahdieh

#65. The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

Lucy Grealy

#66. Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Boris Pasternak

#67. [For the genuine believer] There are moments in life when God's pursuit of us seems like that of a persistent mosquito, constantly buzzing around our heads and causing us pain, and we are utterly powerless to shake him off.

Ian M. Duguid

#68. Make genuine love the foundation life is here to enjoy in the most positive ways,not to copy others but to be an original of you.

Marcelle Hinkson

#69. If your words, actions and intentions are not genuine, I have no use for you or room for you in my life.

Tanya Masse

#70. Islam isn't like that - something you can use just to get what you want. It's a genuine spiritual commitment, a way of life...

Na'ima B. Robert

#71. Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there - to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it.

John Welwood

#72. If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility

Dalai Lama

#73. 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

#74. How often do we listen and act to the call of honesty, serenity, humility and generosity?
How many "soft pillows" do we use for a life time?
If only everyone uses a "soft pillow," then what a better world it could be to have many genuine hearts.

Angelica Hopes

#75. Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.

Pope John Paul II

#76. I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

Bill McCartney

#77. Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

Hans Jonas

#78. Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity possible.

Michael Meade

#79. Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there

Ezra Taft Benson

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

William Morris

#81. No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#82. People in today's world, whether Muslim or not, will not pay attention to Christians because we can explain our theology in crystal-clear terms. They will not esteem us because we give to charity or maintain a positive outlook on life. What will impress them is genuine love in our hearts.

Gracia Burnham

#83. For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth.

Gabriel Brunsdon

#84. I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

Jean De La Bruyere

#85. I wish social disparity has long gone, people can be genuine, and news can be fact-based and error-free.

Aishah Madadiy

#86. My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was known for his intelligence, wit, wisdom, a wonderful sense of humour, a great personality, and a genuine goodwill towards all.

Ajay Mehta

#87. It's when you meet another wretch who is as negative as you about everything that the thunder rolls and the lightening crashes and real life starts - because genuine communication has started

Ben Watson

#88. As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

Tone Bell

#89. The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

John Dewey

#90. My feelings toward you were genuine. Those days we were together as a couple were the happiest of my life.

Maria V. Snyder

#91. Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

John Dewey

#92. To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

Jack Kornfield

#93. Success and all good things in life, start with a genuine concern for others.

Mike Vance

#94. A genuine, tee-hee-hee giggle ... it's like he's being tickled by life

David Levithan

#95. Dictionary he identifies 'what ills the scholar's life assail': 'Toil, envy, want, the garret, and the jail'. The last of these was always a genuine possibility: it was common for people owing even modest debts to be incarcerated, and several writers known to Johnson had suffered this fate - the

Henry Hitchings

#96. 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.

Albert Einstein

#97. No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges. That fact may not be obvious because most people don't advertise their woes and heartaches. But nobody, not even the purest heart, escapes life without suffering battle scars.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#98. At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?

Dean Koontz

#99. We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

William James

#100. genuine relationships are always the best place to start as we seek to integrate our ethical views in the daily life of ministry.

Preston Sprinkle