People Quotes - Page 52

You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4

Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests we easily become despondent. But when we work for others our efforts return to bless us.

God is aware of the hypocrisy in the hearts of men

It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways.

Be like a star and shine, whether people care or do not care; the clouds are temporary, but your beauty is permanent.

Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences.

I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’. In fact, ‘flesh and blood’ describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher’s marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.

It's not how long you live somewhere that makes it home. Home is a feeling here, (she tapped on the chest). That you belong somewhere and somewhere belongs to you. But i will tell you a secret. Some people don't feel they belong anywhere. No matter where they are, they are always unhappy. They go from place to place trying to find peace. And usually they find themselves back where they started.

You are a product of the stories you believe and accept.

True love for our nation will compel us to shout on the streets and get on our knees and ask people to repent

Some people may decide to hate you for no reason simply because your confidence reminds them of their insecurities.

It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on.

Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!

I feel safe when people threaten me, but I feel threaten, when people respect me, because I understand they want something, but I do not understand what they want.

Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.

It's hard to recognize the devil when his hand is on your shoulder. That's because a psychopath is just a person before he becomes a headline.

Light generates life and causes it to grow.

Be cautious when associating with those who have little or no value or appreciation for time.

People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever.

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless.

In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by external signs, and these serve well enough as a basis for society and even for intimacy. But people in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed. And this is why they often seem more definite than characters in history, or even our own friends; we have been told all about them that can be told; even if they are imperfect or unreal they do not contain any secrets, whereas our friends do and must, mutual secrecy being one of the conditions of life upon this globe.

Stop being self-conscious when you write.You are the expert about the world you are creating,no one else. So be bold and write on.

Beautiful feelings soar freely, while true care roots deeply. Real love can only bedefined by them both.

Planning is deciding your destination and setting your sail so you achieve the outcomes and arrive at your intended destination in the shortest possible time.

Your purpose distinguishes you from others; not your talent, IQ, race, job, hobbies, or gender, as these are held in common with many others.

I would much rather lose people than compromise my beliefs & values to please them.

Sometimes the fact that you can't sense God isn't an indication that He is not there. It is just an indication that you are hanging out in the wrong place.The cave is not a physical location, it is a state of mind.

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.

[The thief-taker] was conspicuous by his age, I should estimate he is in his middle fifties, and by a bearing, I am tempted to call it dignity, wanting in the others. He has a good head of hair, only a bit thin on top, blond going grey, and sea green eyes. He has an excellently carved set of teeth, but displays them rarely. He has a trim figure, unusual in a profession that consists largely of loitering around taverns, but any illusion that he is especially fit is dispelled when he begins to move, for he is a little bit halt, and a little bit lame, stiff in the joints and given to frequent sighs and grimaces that hint at pains internal.

Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them

Today I bent the truth to be kind and I have no regret for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without becoming a prisoner.

If you are in a relationship and you care more about what people think or say rather than what you have, you don't deserve that relationship, in fact you don't deserve to be in any relationship at all.

Two thirds of help is to give courage.

I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

Time is life. To manage time you simply have to manage yourself.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other.

If religion is against homosexuality, then it is against the will and happiness of people.

I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than true it was that people were not worth troubling about, and that wise men should set their affections upon nothing smaller than cities, heavenly or otherwise, and countrysides which are always heavenly.

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

How can we love the unseen God and hate the visible man?

No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change.Psalm 139:23 - 24

Great men don't strive for greatness, theysimply do great works.

The impact of relationships can be subtle yet powerful. Make a conscious effort to them choose wisely.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

Leave the company of the people who are given you empty promises

If you are not aware of your destination, you are likely to become used by someone in accordance with his purpose and to work for a person who knows his plans and goals

Carrying the weight of a conditioned mind leaves little opportunity for the questions you should be asking.

Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!

Do you know that you can be surrounded by all these blessings, all these relationships, goodness, provisions, opportunities? But if you don't know how to turn the blessing into praise, it will turn into pride and your life will never be filled with joy because your heart has holes in it.

The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it

If you can love one person, you can love everyone.