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Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.
Perhaps this person will never
be disappointed or disillusioned;
perhaps she won't suffer the way
people do when they have a dream to follow.
But when the person looks back -
and at some point everyone look back -
she will hear her heart, saying,
"What have you done with the miracles
that God planted in your days?
What have you done with the talents
God bestowed on you?"
- Paulo Coelho
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand
that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
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
(Jesus on Anger and Revenge)
You have heard that it was said,
"Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth."
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39
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
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
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
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
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
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
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
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
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
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
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
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
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
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
It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
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
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
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 shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
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
And you, Sonja, you look more beautiful
standing here than you do in person.
- the movie Love and Death (1975)
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
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