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What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer 
Victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy
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)
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"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
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
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 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
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
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
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
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
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
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
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
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
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
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
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 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
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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.
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
I am what I am.
- Village People
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)
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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.
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
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
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
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
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