people

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
eb440ac	The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.	happiness life people	Elizabeth Gilbert
93bfd02	In general, people were not road maps. People were not hieroglyphs or books. They were not stories. A person was a collection of accidents. A person was an infinite pile of rocks with things growing underneath.	people	Lorrie Moore
5c9a971	People surprise you sometimes.	dennis-lehane people quotes sacred	Dennis Lehane
0537619	She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.	people relationships	Zadie Smith
034836d	Ia liubliu tebia s toi samoi sekundy, kogda vpervye uvidel tebia. Mne kazhetsia, ia vsegda liubil tebia - stol'ko, skol'ko sushchestvuet na svete liubov'. Ia liubliu tvoi golos. Ia liubliu tvoe litso. Ia liubliu tvoi ruki. Ia liubliu vse, chto ty delaesh', i to, kak ty eto delaesh'. Kogda ty prikasaesh'sia ko mne, mne kazhetsia, chto eto volshebnaia palochka. Ia liubliu sledit' za tem, kak ty dumaesh', i slushat' to, chto ty govorish'. Ia chuvstvuiu vse eto, no ne ponimaiu i ne mogu ob'iasnit' - ni tebe, ni sebe. Ia prosto liubliu tebia, liubliu vsem serdtsem. Ty vypolniaesh' missiiu Boga: pridaesh' smysl moei zhizni. I potomu mne est' za chto liubit' etot mir.	love people shantaram	Gregory David Roberts
4e12edd	...to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen...	people	Richard Ford
4a3a3c6	I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.	history people society society-problem violence world	Cormac McCarthy
e28638c	I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed	life people project psychology reform	Ben Elton
d72950c	People love different people in different ways.	people relationship	James Baldwin
02d9443	I'm convinced that a few people are going to stand up and do something, anything, to get this world back in our hands.	american-history dreams motivational people society world	Rebecca McNutt
45a7180	"Each of you told what your burden was just now, except Beth. I rather think she hasn't got any," said her mother. "Yes, I have. Mine is dishes and dusters, and envying girls with nice pianos, and being afraid of people."	beth burden dishes-and-dusters envy louisa-may-alcott mother people pianos	Louisa May Alcott
b013f7c	But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before.. ..I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? - I'm almost... drawn to them.	close drawn people same similar suffer	Mitch Albom
45d845d	One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.	people	Anne Lamott
9f47a79	is reality simply a dream we share?	family paul-hautman people reality	Pete Hautman
f39d7af	People want to believe.	people	Robert Ferrigno
20b7b09	I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? I had no idea.	love-issues people trust	Jeanette Winterson
4ed701f	It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire.	people	Jess Walter
c6077af	Las estadisticas lo demuestran: mas gente muere en la cama que en la trinchera.	cama death estadisticas gente morir muere muerte people	Carlos Ruiz Zafón
88abfb6	A lot of us are like that--I'm like that, Ed Abbey was like that, and it sounds like this McCandless kid was like that: We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.	companionship independence isolation people social	Jon Krakauer
528b819	I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom closets. I have leant over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as they write love letters, wills and confessions. I have watched as lovers love, murderers murder and children play their make believe. Prisons and brothels have opened their doors to me; galleons and camel trains have transported me across sea and sand; centuries and continents have fallen away at my bidding. I have spied upon the misdeeds of the mighty and witnessed the nobility of the meek. I have bent so low over sleepers in their beds that they might have felt my breath on their faces. I have seen their dreams.	characters lives people writers	Diane Setterfield
0d9b8dc	You never know who anybody is. Even the people closest to you.	people	Jude Watson
258b7f3	Molds are for Jell-O, not for people.	molds people unique	Sarah Stewart Holland
9824b82	"Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy."	live people sad unhappy	Mitch Albom
16a17ab	We hold all people to unspoken rules about who and how they should be, how they should think, and what the should say. We say we hate stereotypes but take issue when people deviate from those stereotypes.	people prejudice stereotypes	Roxane Gay
ce545b0	How long have i been dead? A minute. An hour. A thousand years	heaven people	Mitch Albom
c895821	Keep on the path and you will not see the ruined people, so do not stray from the path.	people ruined-people	Colson Whitehead
7b19ab3	Le speranze le hanno le persone, ma i destini li distribuisce il diavolo.	devil hope people	Carlos Ruiz Zafón
00607f7	We all have the capacity to do hurtful things, but we differ from one another in terms of scale-how much we can hurt others, how far we will go to make a statement about our beliefs, how remorseful we might feel in the aftermath of committing a terrible act.	limits people	Roxane Gay
8e9f5b0	But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims... and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But--how can I put this?--I'm almost... drawn to them.	people suffering	Mitch Albom
2acdf0b	There are just people going about what they always do. Talking. Parking crooked.	funny human-nature humor location-3548 parking people	Markus Zusak
e6a57a9	Cand actionam, chiar cu cele mai bune intentii, cand ne amestecam in cursul lumii, riscam de fiecare data sa provocam un alt dezastru care s-ar putea sa nu fie direct infaptuit de noi, dar care n-ar fi posibil fara interventia noastra. Unele dintre cele mai rele nedreptati au fost provocate de oamenii care au incercat la un moment dat sa schimbe lucrurile.	people soul truth	Gregory David Roberts
b64c746	One thought ever at the fore-- That in the Divine Ship, the World, breasting Time and Space, All Peoples of the globe together sail, sail the same voyage, are bound to the same destination. I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?	global history law peace people	Kim Stanley Robinson
2932626	, I heard my aunt Diane boom in my head. Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed.	ifs-and-buts people quotes right sayings wrong	Gillian Flynn
cbced9a	I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I'm going to hear. On you - if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.	cry dying good life need people self story tuesday	Mitch Albom
97d2743	The only thing more pitiful than a middle-aged punk is a white Rastafarian. I did meet one of those once, and he was lonelier than I was.	humor people	Louis de Bernières
fde0829	As the kids dance around the front yard under the night sky and the lights, I see something. Lua and Marie are holding hands. They look like they're so happy, just inside this moment, watching the kids and the lights on their old fibro house. Lua kisses her. Just softly on the lips. And she kisses back. Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.	people	Markus Zusak
a5a2f56	Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.	people safety shooting taste	Rachel Kushner
e8d08fd	And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.	laid mind-altering-substances new people	Michel Faber

eb440ac

The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

happiness life people

Elizabeth Gilbert

93bfd02

In general, people were not road maps. People were not hieroglyphs or books. They were not stories. A person was a collection of accidents. A person was an infinite pile of rocks with things growing underneath.

people

Lorrie Moore

5c9a971

People surprise you sometimes.

dennis-lehane people quotes sacred

Dennis Lehane

0537619

She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.

people relationships

Zadie Smith

034836d

Ia liubliu tebia s toi samoi sekundy, kogda vpervye uvidel tebia. Mne kazhetsia, ia vsegda liubil tebia - stol'ko, skol'ko sushchestvuet na svete liubov'. Ia liubliu tvoi golos. Ia liubliu tvoe litso. Ia liubliu tvoi ruki. Ia liubliu vse, chto ty delaesh', i to, kak ty eto delaesh'. Kogda ty prikasaesh'sia ko mne, mne kazhetsia, chto eto volshebnaia palochka. Ia liubliu sledit' za tem, kak ty dumaesh', i slushat' to, chto ty govorish'. Ia chuvstvuiu vse eto, no ne ponimaiu i ne mogu ob'iasnit' - ni tebe, ni sebe. Ia prosto liubliu tebia, liubliu vsem serdtsem. Ty vypolniaesh' missiiu Boga: pridaesh' smysl moei zhizni. I potomu mne est' za chto liubit' etot mir.

love people shantaram

Gregory David Roberts

4e12edd

...to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen...

people

Richard Ford

4a3a3c6

I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.

history people society society-problem violence world

Cormac McCarthy

e28638c

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

life people project psychology reform

Ben Elton

d72950c

People love different people in different ways.

people relationship

James Baldwin

02d9443

I'm convinced that a few people are going to stand up and do something, anything, to get this world back in our hands.

american-history dreams motivational people society world

Rebecca McNutt

45a7180

"Each of you told what your burden was just now, except Beth. I rather think she hasn't got any," said her mother. "Yes, I have. Mine is dishes and dusters, and envying girls with nice pianos, and being afraid of people."

beth burden dishes-and-dusters envy louisa-may-alcott mother people pianos

Louisa May Alcott

b013f7c

But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before.. ..I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? - I'm almost... drawn to them.

close drawn people same similar suffer

Mitch Albom

45d845d

One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.

people

Anne Lamott

9f47a79

is reality simply a dream we share?

family paul-hautman people reality

Pete Hautman

f39d7af

People want to believe.

people

Robert Ferrigno

20b7b09

I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? I had no idea.

love-issues people trust

Jeanette Winterson

4ed701f

It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire.

people

Jess Walter

c6077af

Las estadisticas lo demuestran: mas gente muere en la cama que en la trinchera.

cama death estadisticas gente morir muere muerte people

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

88abfb6

A lot of us are like that--I'm like that, Ed Abbey was like that, and it sounds like this McCandless kid was like that: We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.

companionship independence isolation people social

Jon Krakauer

528b819

I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom closets. I have leant over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as they write love letters, wills and confessions. I have watched as lovers love, murderers murder and children play their make believe. Prisons and brothels have opened their doors to me; galleons and camel trains have transported me across sea and sand; centuries and continents have fallen away at my bidding. I have spied upon the misdeeds of the mighty and witnessed the nobility of the meek. I have bent so low over sleepers in their beds that they might have felt my breath on their faces. I have seen their dreams.

characters lives people writers

Diane Setterfield

0d9b8dc

You never know who anybody is. Even the people closest to you.

people

Jude Watson

258b7f3

Molds are for Jell-O, not for people.

molds people unique

Sarah Stewart Holland

9824b82

"Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy."

live people sad unhappy

Mitch Albom

16a17ab

We hold all people to unspoken rules about who and how they should be, how they should think, and what the should say. We say we hate stereotypes but take issue when people deviate from those stereotypes.

people prejudice stereotypes

Roxane Gay

ce545b0

How long have i been dead? A minute. An hour. A thousand years

heaven people

Mitch Albom

c895821

Keep on the path and you will not see the ruined people, so do not stray from the path.

people ruined-people

Colson Whitehead

7b19ab3

Le speranze le hanno le persone, ma i destini li distribuisce il diavolo.

devil hope people

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

00607f7

We all have the capacity to do hurtful things, but we differ from one another in terms of scale-how much we can hurt others, how far we will go to make a statement about our beliefs, how remorseful we might feel in the aftermath of committing a terrible act.

limits people

Roxane Gay

8e9f5b0

But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims... and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But--how can I put this?--I'm almost... drawn to them.

people suffering

Mitch Albom

2acdf0b

There are just people going about what they always do. Talking. Parking crooked.

funny human-nature humor location-3548 parking people

Markus Zusak

e6a57a9

Cand actionam, chiar cu cele mai bune intentii, cand ne amestecam in cursul lumii, riscam de fiecare data sa provocam un alt dezastru care s-ar putea sa nu fie direct infaptuit de noi, dar care n-ar fi posibil fara interventia noastra. Unele dintre cele mai rele nedreptati au fost provocate de oamenii care au incercat la un moment dat sa schimbe lucrurile.

people soul truth

Gregory David Roberts

b64c746

One thought ever at the fore-- That in the Divine Ship, the World, breasting Time and Space, All Peoples of the globe together sail, sail the same voyage, are bound to the same destination. I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?

global history law peace people

Kim Stanley Robinson

2932626

, I heard my aunt Diane boom in my head. Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed.

ifs-and-buts people quotes right sayings wrong

Gillian Flynn

cbced9a

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I'm going to hear. On you - if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.

cry dying good life need people self story tuesday

Mitch Albom

97d2743

The only thing more pitiful than a middle-aged punk is a white Rastafarian. I did meet one of those once, and he was lonelier than I was.

humor people

Louis de Bernières

fde0829

As the kids dance around the front yard under the night sky and the lights, I see something. Lua and Marie are holding hands. They look like they're so happy, just inside this moment, watching the kids and the lights on their old fibro house. Lua kisses her. Just softly on the lips. And she kisses back. Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

people

Markus Zusak

a5a2f56

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

people safety shooting taste

Rachel Kushner

e8d08fd

And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.

laid mind-altering-substances new people

Michel Faber