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Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Cloud Animals: Be a Child Again.
I remember warm summer afternoons,
laying in the shade of a maple tree in the back yard
of my Connecticut home watching the clouds for hours.
As those clouds formed dragons and foxes, clowns and angels,
I traveled across space and time.
- 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
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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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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.
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
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
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
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
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
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
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
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
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
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
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
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
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
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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