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We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
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
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
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.
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Important ideas can come from unexpected places.
We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,
Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open
to good ideas - whatever their source.
It is equally important to avoid accepting any idea
merely because we respect that person's
other ideas or accomplishments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Look at this butterfly, so beautiful, so delicate.
I can enjoy this butterfly from a distance,
but if I touched her, she would die.
While not quite as delicate as butterflies,
people also need private space and private time
away from the demands of the world -
even away from the attentions of those
with whom they are most bonded.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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