Quotes About Henna

#1. If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil.

Isabella Bird

#2. Spend lavishly on creams. Wash your hair with henna at the first sign of gray. Never spend one minute thinking about what you do not have. And most importantly, indulge in everything but love.

M.J. Rose

#3. Mrs. Mitchell, Henna greets, her voice three sizes smaller than a minute ago.

Patrick Ness

#4. I shrug and smile amiably the way you do when you're in a foreign country and have no idea what anyone is saying, so you end up grinning and nodding your way into a three-way with a henna vendor and a camel.

Sarah Bird

#5. We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.

Malala Yousafzai

#6. The other day, I got a henna tattoo that says "Forever."

Zach Galifianakis

#7. I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.

Sienna Miller

#8. Only befriend those who offer encouragements instead of advice." Henna

Bradley Ernst

#9. What is henna? More than just the art itself, the name henna is actually derived from its flowering plant.

Jamilah Izzuddin

#10. Our suppressing who we are to fit in is exhausting. It kills flow and creativity. It also prevents genuine connection with others.

Henna Inam

#11. To be effective, we have to slow down the speed of our thoughts and focus on managing our attention.

Henna Inam

#12. To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

Henna Inam

#13. Authentic leadership is leading adaptively from your core, choosing who you're most inspired to be to serve the greatest good in this moment.

Henna Inam

#14. Practice holding labels lightly as leaders so you have greater range in your behaviors and are more adaptable and effective in a greater range of situations.

Henna Inam

#15. Authenticity is a choice we make about who we want to be that inspires our greater aliveness.

Henna Inam

#16. Brahma and Airavata
Long ago in lands of golden sand
Brahma turned to Saraswati
and gently kissed her inked hand ...

Muse

#17. The real you focuses on goals that inspire you and doesn't let "that's just not me!" stand in the way.

Henna Inam

#18. Confused? Confusion is good. It's an excellent place to learn something new from.

Henna Inam

#19. Authenticity is our natural state of being. The authentic self is a state of being where we are centered, creative, adaptive, and inspired.

Henna Inam

#20. Being true to ourselves is about having courage to define our own version of what it is to live a successful life.

Henna Inam

#21. Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse.

Henna Inam

#22. Authentic leadership is at the root of cultures of great innovation, engagement, outstanding client experiences, and growth.

Henna Inam

#23. Authentic leadership is the full expression of "me" for the benefit of "we".

Henna Inam

#24. Our imperfections are what create authentic connections with one another.

Henna Inam

#25. Don't believe everything you think. Our minds are thought-creating machines. Most of these thoughts are fear-based. Our authentic self has the power to pick the thoughts that best serve us and those we lead.

Henna Inam

#26. Authenticity is a practice we choose in each present moment. It is not a plan or a destination to get to. The choices we make in the now are most important because in a fast-changing world, flexing to what's happening now, and creating from it is a critical leadership skill.

Henna Inam

#27. Authentic leadership is about leading from the core of who we are to inspire each of us to our best contribution toward a shared mission.

Henna Inam

#28. Authentic leadership is a whole body experience. Our bodies have a lot more to teach us about ourselves than our thoughts.

Henna Inam

#29. If we try to emulate the leadership style of others we perceive as successful, we end up being second-rate versions of someone else.

Henna Inam

#30. The struggle to live up to an "ideal image" of who we should be in order to feel safe misdirects and depletes our energy.

Henna Inam

#31. To return to our authenticity, we have to let go of all that we are not. We recognize and let go of the judgments, fears, and "shoulds" that keep us stuck.

Henna Inam

#32. When we limit ourselves by being the person we "should" be, we limit our aliveness. We may achieve success but not fulfillment because we are not living out all the important truths about ourselves, truths we need to slow down to excavate.

Henna Inam

#33. Positive energy is unleashed when leaders give themselves permission to connect and express themselves from the core of who they are. When leaders practice authenticity, creativity, engagement, confidence, and a sense of inner resourcefulness emerge.

Henna Inam

#34. Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [ ... ] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

Tamora Pierce