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2414ee5 I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. people humor Jane Austen
1de070b When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. perfection relationships people Donald Miller
133e114 We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved. those-who-love-us to-be-loved true-love people humanity learning reality inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-lessons love inspirational inspirational-love what-matters growing real-love reality-of-life C. JoyBell C.
c2d107c People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. people Rick Riordan
04a83e6 Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. world people scared John Steinbeck
b4ba323 I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. people scout Harper Lee
5cef22f I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with. fate romance people heart love inspirational dissapointment couples deep Fannie Flagg
b3611f5 I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me. loneliness personality people differences emotions Jonathan Safran Foer
1ee142e People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. people truth George R.R. Martin
a36295c Hell is--other people! people hell Jean-Paul Sartre
077118a Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? people friendship love philosophy possibility important thought Haruki Murakami
8b6cac0 The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. people freedom sacrifice love caring discipline David Foster Wallace
769f618 People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little. people viewpoint James Hilton
ffc4359 Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you. general-obregon-s-philosophy people life inspirational dishonesty Dale Carnegie
036cdcd I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before! stars people human humanity self-awareness inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring strength life truth inspirational supernova C. JoyBell C.
f36d978 Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't. People are much more complicated than that. It's true of everybody. looks people true-nature Neil Gaiman
eda9835 Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? reading world people peace David Baldacci
3a3fb55 If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate. song-writing taylor-swift people song humor inspirational bullying Taylor Swift
9246d9d You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. people play paraphrased Richard Lingard
c1fd2af People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty. people ya Maggie Stiefvater
3d1529f No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy. unhappiness people life philosophy Paulo Coelho
b2896e6 The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it. people intelligence mob-rule mobs Terry Pratchett
034f6e9 It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. people humor taking-advantage apologizing P.G. Wodehouse
dafad75 Name the different kinds of people,' said Miss Lupescu. 'Now.' Bod thought for a moment. 'The living,' he said. 'Er. The dead.' He stopped. Then, '... Cats?' he offered, uncertainly. people living humor guess kinds kinds-of-people challenge dead Neil Gaiman
1c6156b For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race. human-race life-s-journey the-journey two-wings perfection people humanity inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life truth wisdom inspirational living-life flying imperfection flight wisdom-quotes perfect ancient wings journey C. JoyBell C.
e183f8c Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. life-and-learning inspirational-love-quotes people learning inspirational-quotes life-and-living love inspirational learning-the-truth belong inspirational-love belonging changing growing person C. JoyBell C.
3ff5f83 People are too complicated to have simple labels. people Philip Pullman
56247c3 Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment -- that which they cannot anticipate. people predictability surprise Sun Tzu
fb0daaa You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. people Jeannette Walls
8fbf55f The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place. sanity people psychology Jim Butcher
c8ebb42 When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. people life philosophy Paulo Coelho
3359836 ...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave. people Paulo Coelho
319b94c There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched. We separate. people love soul James Frey
0a55d2e If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them. feelings relationships people life respect vanity F. Scott Fitzgerald
e0a6d9b "So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is--other people!" people Jean-Paul Sartre
caeab61 "People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that: "A quiet conscience mades one strong!" true people life-lessons life truth wisdom inspirational wisdom-quote experience consciousness Anne Frank
575e517 "the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and time people sunsets lifetime tired Charles Bukowski
a66abec I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. people Oscar Wilde
8f749d1 People are more than just the way they look. people Madeleine L'Engle
60ad2ea In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie. words lies library reading people Jeanette Winterson
5e37eed And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. people sin Terry Pratchett
06d99ce Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself--if they could live in my memories--would anyone, anyone, love me? people John Green
0a6d35e We're actors -- we're the opposite of people! theatre people humanity humor archetypes symbolism Tom Stoppard
869a9cf You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you. people life you David Levithan
ea8078b There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself. people Jonathan Safran Foer
cb93278 When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it. people society Haruki Murakami
e792161 "I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off." people mental-ward excuse Ned Vizzini
de758dd So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepts my being. And does not smite me down. solitude people Sylvia Plath
93791a8 If people reach perfection they vanish, you know. perfection people human inspirational T.H. White
47a0890 If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right. people life inspirational Evanescence
9bc633e People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring. people life humans Emma Donoghue
418b076 I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across! people humor cheat Diana Wynne Jones
4967ff2 You say freak, I say unique. looks oddity people positivity life inspirational inspirational-quote inner-beauty freak ethereal appreciation interesting odd weird attraction imperfections strange unique beautiful Christian Baloga
df8618d I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs. people halloween Douglas Coupland
372f6dd Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person. inspirational-love-quotes learnings looking-for-love people learning inspirational-life inspirational-quotes love inspirational learning-the-truth inspirational-love person C. JoyBell C.
3e82b81 And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels. labels good people complicated deed evil name Philip Pullman
e045241 Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull. people honesty mask Salman Rushdie
b8b8363 People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. prejudice people truth rumor libel reputation neighbor slander George Eliot
7a2464e I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get. loneliness poem poetry people beauty superficial-beauty bukowski appearance superficial superficiality classics self reflection beautiful mirror lonely self-esteem soul ugly classic Charles Bukowski
28ef260 People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead. people human life chemicals breakfast-of-champions kurt-vonnegut body ugly Kurt Vonnegut
82d7906 People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion. action people motivational life inspirational courageous opinions decision Steve Maraboli
22b3e98 The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people. people humanity Jim Butcher
29d0fc2 We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them. people perception Colson Whitehead
f7270c1 Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor. people poor kind John Steinbeck
54b8e92 People don't want other people to be people. people selfishness Gene Wolfe
73c374d History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time. people Terry Pratchett
d9c0c2a Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us. people compassion motivational life inspirational anger resentment grudge Steve Maraboli
230752d I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. relationships people Ray Bradbury
187a569 Aren't you afraid of dying? Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it. people handle worthless dying Haruki Murakami
ae0a77a Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not. be-yourself acting adage adages aphorisms audacity axiom axioms balls cojones conforming courageousness dictum dictums fit-in hardihood heroism herself human-being intrepidity made-me-think make-you-think maxims motivated moxie murder murdered oneself persons pluckiness pretender pretenders profound provoke-thought quotation spunk standout themselves true-grit daring humour bravery courage inspired people human fear quote inspiration inspire death motivational humor inspirational fearful actor saying lemons conform animal pluck courageous lemon plants nerve boldness motive plant words-to-live-by killed gnomes nonconformity orange maxim tree brave actors façades act grit epigram epigrams gnome produce deep fitting-in valour proverbs facade aphorism pretending quotations sayings pretend conformity gallantry peoples guts standing-out trees animals satire satirical self thought-provoking person himself yourself quotes human-beings thoughtful insightful proverb humans kill fearlessness dead fruit fruits die Mokokoma Mokhonoana
fd06ae1 "I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? people life love Roald Dahl
57e7a2d Most people are boring and stupid. people stupid Oscar Wilde
04afb04 Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped. good people truth false-hope Jonathan Safran Foer
b1ed681 I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. people mothers Jodi Picoult
56f2ec8 Don't tell thin women to eat a cheeseburger. Don't tell fat women to put down the fork. Don't tell underweight men to bulk up. Don't tell women with facial hair to wax, don't tell uncircumcised men they're gross, don't tell muscular women to go easy on the dead-lift, don't tell dark-skinned women to bleach their vagina, don't tell black women to relax their hair, don't tell flat-chested women to get breast implants, don't tell "apple-shaped" women what's "flattering," don't tell mothers to hide their stretch marks, and don't tell people whose toes you don't approve of not to wear flip-flops. And so on, etc, etc, in every iteration until the mountains crumble to the sea. Basically, just go ahead and CEASE telling other human beings what they "should" and "shouldn't" do with their bodies unless a) you are their doctor, or b) SOMEBODY GODDAMN ASKED YOU. people women life inspirational society Lindy West
61591ab she wasn't very interesting but few people are. poem poetry people women humanity family death life love bukowski interesting conversation society Charles Bukowski
d3235ba Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. people Haruki Murakami
126e10a No people find each other more absurd than lovers lover relationships people love C.S. Lewis
13d80de Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad. good people daenerys daenerys-targaryen queen George R.R. Martin
55f0e25 You learn to move on without the people you love. people move-on Bret Easton Ellis
151d0d8 As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry. people Charles Bukowski
4d407b3 It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world. people san-francisco tales-of-the-city places hiding Oscar Wilde
d169b79 Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do. man people self-acceptance peace Gregory Maguire
beb87b7 The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me. onion-skins persona people inspirational-life inspirational-quotes living life inspirational the-world C. JoyBell C.
6539e85 Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast. magic people goals waiting thinking Hermann Hesse
2650d0e People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone. people life John Green
307fb4f And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. people political-revolutionary revolutionary-movement revolution ideology Terry Pratchett
02016af The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does. people dreams inspirational change-the-world Hugh MacLeod
f193a85 I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be. people evvy rosethorn Tamora Pierce
1267daa People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it. people freedom lifestyle Jeannette Walls
2cc4118 I think people make their own faces, as they grow. people grow growing-up Enid Blyton
0a27be6 If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you. people cynical nietzsche negative Cory Doctorow
b598b0b I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone. loneliness people Ford Madox Ford
de621bb "Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go." relationships people family philosophy Norman Maclean
6061bc1 Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. people society John Fowles
f481512 My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important. people truth self-care rich Frances Hodgson Burnett
0b19d18 Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist. people reality Terry Pratchett
f80c057 People move around so much in the world, things get lost. travel world people lost Emma Donoghue
0adf533 There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. people overwhelming John Green
9d8d646 The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together. people hemingway cafes paris Ernest Hemingway
8018980 Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something. people love skills John Green
2f7df75 And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. people watches misery Douglas Adams
1e5976e Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror. people life truth Yann Martel
aa97106 There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularily life with other people, possible. people Nicole Krauss
f801002 However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will? personality passion emotion people ugliness observation description sincerity psychology Honoré de Balzac
731c7a1 As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed. loneliness people Charles de Lint
cf14ff7 Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but closer it begins to separate, to break into light and shadow, the density blinds one. Within there is no form, only prodigious detail that reaches everywhere: exotic sounds, spills of sunlight, foliage, fallen trees, small beasts that flee at the sound of a twig-snap, insects, silence, flowers. And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see. metaphor people forest trees James Salter
0b234f7 I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire? people life heart-of-a-man Leo Tolstoy
470dd47 Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach. people friends friendship life-lessons benefits classification social-gaps social-ladder doors social-classes society selection hypocrisy exploitation loyalty Paulo Coelho
9b12e30 Conceited people never hear anything but praise. people praise hear Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
69954de "I'm "exceptional"- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of "gifted" and "deprived" (which used to mean "bright" and "retarded") and as soon as "exceptional" begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody. "Exceptional" refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional." people Daniel Keyes
a4c99f0 Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook. people Salman Rushdie
2067336 Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals. live people peaceful ideals real way John Scalzi
89c3b13 You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. relationships people John Green
ecc8fd8 I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind. stereotypes people flattery misanthropic roguery society hypocrisy deceit Molière
2fc6747 An army of the people is invincible! people commie prolitariat soviet mao red-army revolution communism Mao Zedong
519b0f9 Don't you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there's a huge possibility you'll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn't that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don't you find that scary? people life love Haruki Murakami
f636a80 Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different. people life electronic-communities interactions doing Kurt Vonnegut
d8e6446 Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about. people augustus-waters hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace tfios the-fault-in-our-stars hazel dead John Green
55a3af9 A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom. integrity people Ayn Rand
511b1d1 "There's a writer for you," he said. "Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing." [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers--because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer--still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying--only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers." people descriptions insider perceptions writers F. Scott Fitzgerald
328485e People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different. people life Sue Monk Kidd
13d3f9c People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want to vomit--and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea people vomit Jean-Paul Sartre
f73bd1d The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. universe people love J.D. Salinger
8c4b323 "1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as "bigger" (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do." -- people fear god self-esteem Edward T. Welch
624890d There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities stereotypes words relationships people dishonesty misanthropy society hypocrisy Molière
9a98d44 You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.) people William Goldman
bd73414 I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought! romance people friends love elizabeth-gaskell lily-of-the-valley molly-gibson wives-and-daughters flowers Elizabeth Gaskell
43f5145 It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common. people common house-rules differences Jodi Picoult
4557462 See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals... people fakes phonies falseness Arthur Miller
6e59899 Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them. people gray observational vitality John Steinbeck
afcc0ef Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. people the-bluest-eye Toni Morrison
0a689b0 The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't. people love Mitch Albom
dcb566f Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away. people friends enemies Ellis Peters
5affa30 A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name. people Charles de Lint
a124fa8 Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement in the same circle. We never would have chosen these neighbors; life chose them for us. But thrown together on this island of living, we stretch to understand each other and are invigorated by the stretching. The difficulty with big city environment is that if we select--and we must in order to live and breathe and work in such crowded conditions--we tend to select people like ourselves, a very monotonous diet. All hors d'oeuvres and no meat; or all sweets and no vegetables, depending on the kind of people we are. But however much the diet may differ between us, one thing is fairly certain: we usually select the known, seldom the strange. We tend not to choose the unknown which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. people life everything-happens-for-a-reason Anne Morrow Lindbergh
811ca20 Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone. war people trust the-sheep-man kill Haruki Murakami
deed95f You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions. people life Robert Fulghum
cf4ae74 That's why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too - their dreams and their scars and their stories. people dreams involved scars stories Tom Perrotta
f2c1074 It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. people humanity resilience Bram Stoker
ee2ae36 ...everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go! time people life somewhere home Fyodor Dostoyevsky
65891a5 This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It's not that the network itself is smart; it's that the individuals get smarter because they're connected to the network. people innovation insightful Steven Johnson
88ca494 Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both. truth-telling people lives fool James Baldwin
b27b52b So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us. people only-me walls worlds worry Markus Zusak
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