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• Every morning when we wake up we've been given a wonderful gift-another day of life-so let's make the most of it. No one can do it for us. . . . Genuine happiness can only be realized once we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives. This may be a new behavior for some of us and a bit intimidating. Be gentle with yourself. It will all unfold. Like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happiness, Morning, Priorities

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• We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Real

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• You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Winning, Dedication

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• The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Revolutionary, Persons

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

  Brooks Atkinson

  People, Theatre, Sides

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• A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not capture with laughter and tears the social and historical pulse, the drama of its people, the genuine color of the spiritual and natural landscape, has no right to call itself theater; but only a place for amusement.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, Laughter, Drama

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• There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.

  Phil Callaway

  Friendship, True Friend, Quality

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• Our attitude toward others reveals our genuine attitude toward God.

  David Jeremiah

  Encouragement, Attitude

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• The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity.

  Robin Sharma

  Leadership, Adversity, Faces

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.39, Jaico Publishing House

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• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  Kate Chopin

  Literature, Matter, Lace

  Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

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• My divorce was like a death - a genuine death of commitment and love. After I got over the shock, I was like, tell me theres some way we can save this. We can save this, right?

  Shania Twain

  Commitment, Divorce, And Love

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• Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Able, Way, Anticipation

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.70, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Gratitude is usually generated in one of two ways. One, by feeling a genuine appreciation for the life that you were given and, two, by making a conscious decision to practice looking at what's right in your life rather than focusing on what's missing.

  Alex Green

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Practice

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• Genuine magic demands on perfect simplicity of execution.

  Jean Hugard

  Perfect, Simplicity, Magic

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• The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world. All genuine art seeks the spirit. Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory - disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness. If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

  Rudolf Steiner (1964). “The arts and their mission”

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• I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that.

  Chris Hayes

  Memories, War, Hero

  "MSNBC host apologizes after saying he's 'uncomfortable' calling fallen soldiers heroes", www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2012.

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• The most you can do is stand up for what you believe in. I'm much happier since coming out to my friends and family. Being genuine and honest makes me happy.

  Jason Collins

  Believe, Family And Friends, Honest

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now". www.si.com. May 6, 2013.

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• God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.

  Peter Kreeft

  Powerful, Evil People, World

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• Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the peaks are so few-things like genuine flashes of virtuoso brush inking, like I've never executed before or since-I can count on one hand the number of jobs where I've been able to hit that mark. The same with penciling. Sometimes it just flows, but more often than not, it's pure physical and spiritual torment just to get something decent on paper. I often get very discouraged with the whole creative process.

  Dave Stevens

  Spiritual, Jobs, Numbers

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• Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in Technicolor more often (34 times), has had a more versatile group of leading men (from John Wayne to John Candy) or has spent more time held captive on a pirate ship than our TCM Star of the Month for July, the magnificent red-headed Maureen O'Hara.

  Robert Osborne

  Beautiful, Stars, Men

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• It really helps if you are doing something you love instead of something you are just spending a bunch of money on. You can become very discouraged if you're not involved in something genuine, something that you believe in, and are committed to.

  Jerry Baldwin

  Believe, Helping, Discouraged

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• There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two-state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighboring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Israel, Two, States

  "Rivlin to Carter: No Israeli Consensus on '2 States'". www.israelnationalnews.com. June 16, 2009.

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• No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be a mixture of opportunism and exploitation. Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.

  Michael Ghiselin

  Hypocrite, Vision, Watches

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• Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions.

  Jonathan Evison

  Reading, Collaboration, Conversation

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• 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

  Gratitude, Acceptance, Life Is Precious

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