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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
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Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby 
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
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
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
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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
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 will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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 don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
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
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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.
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
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
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
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
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
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.
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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.
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
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
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
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
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