Genuine Life Quotes:

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

- Mother Teresa

topic: Love, Thinking, Order, Extraordinary Love, Getting Tired

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

- William Morris

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

topic: Life, Happiness, Lying, Interest In Life, Genuine Happiness

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

- Leo Buscaglia

source: "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Importunate, Nobody Cares

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

topic: Life, Motivational, Spiritual, Religious Life, Spiritual Evolution

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

topic: Gratitude, Acceptance, Life Is Precious, Firsts And Lasts, Genuine Life

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.

- Boris Pasternak

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

topic: Genuine, Ripple, Genuine Life

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

- Lydia M. Child

topic: Destiny, Battle, Doe, Genuine Life

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.

- Steve Goodier

topic: Responsibility, Compassion, Decision, Strike Back, Genuine Life

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

- Robert Bly

source: Source: www.utne.com

topic: Adults, Culture, Able, Genuine Life

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

source: Randolph Silliman Bourne (1919). “Untimely Papers”

topic: Dominance, Passing, Genuine, Liberated, Genuine Life