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People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
Most people are more skilled at begging God than at thanking God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate,
separated from everything ... And they're not.
They're part of absolutely everyone, and everything.
- the movie Powder
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Life is ever giving of Itself.
We must receive, utilize and extend the gift.
Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes
belonging to all people.
- Ernest Holmes
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The manifest universe is the body of God ...
all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
I am ME.
I am not my attachments.
I am not my possessions.
I am not the people in my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
I choose to enjoy people as I enjoy a rainbow or a butterfly -
they are most beautiful when they are free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
I just want to do God's will.
And he's allowed me to go to the mountain.
And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land!
I may not get there with you,
but I want you to know tonight that
we as a people will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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