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A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black
When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you choose to carry resentment and hatred,
you are shouldering an immense burden that damages
your happiness, and often your health.
Does it matter that your resentment and hatred are "justified?"
Only you suffer - not the person you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
And you, Sonja, you look more beautiful
standing here than you do in person.
- the movie Love and Death (1975)
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
That person did the very best they could,
given the knowledge, emotions, and prior experience
they had to draw upon at the time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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