“Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.”
Mark Twain
“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”
Howard Thurman
“We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead / and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.”
“Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine”
Horace Greeley
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
D.H. Lawrence
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
William Morris
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
Martin Luther King Jr.