People Quotes - Page 88

A blessed deed is saying hello with a smile to someone you meet on the street, in the shop, in the bus, in the office, in the church, in the holy places, in the mosque, at the park, at the school, at the university…..’ This is the greatest action of belonging to one another.

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore.

There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

What we frankly give forever is our own.

You have to master the art of selectivity in everything you do. Otherwise, you could be side-tracked by secondary events and opportunities.

All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.

Until you develop the courage to pursue that dream in your heart, you will never reach your true potential.

I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?

To be under a physical bondage or a mental bondage is one of the worst situations someone could ever be in life.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Voicing out against injustice in the society is championing a just cause.

Five minutes after something happened might not be the best time for you to get into your Facebook and tell everybody. Men's panic does not produce God's power.

The only way to love God is by loving His people

The best remedy for people who have become your headache is to take a 'chill pill' from your willingness to endure their misery.

Being with you makes people desire what you show to them

Ignorance leads to low income.

What harm does lying cause? One loses people’s trust. And once one loses trust, he becomes worthless.

You recognize God when you begin to recognize people

If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, occasionally to win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive movements of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of being driven by destiny.

Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented having the most imagination and sympathy these are the first ones to get killed off.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose.

Don’t pack out______________To some people, you make life brightWhen you decide to dim your lightTheir lives will be full of darknessDo shine your light in kindnessTo some people, you bring out a joyWith their emotions, never ever toyWith your smiles, grease them with oilAnd make them glad when their lives boilTo other people, you are the warmthThat kills coldness and brings strengthDon’t do it; don’t pack outElse, they will have blackoutYou’re on earth to do two things hereWake up and do them now; this yearFirst, dare to grow and become betterSecond, help others to also become greaterNever in any of the four seasonsShould you neglect your gifts for any reasonsThe world needs you to make it a better placeDon’t pack out; run your race

I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.

Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way things were, the way things always would be, they weren’t natural at all. They were things that could be changed, and they were things that, more importantly, were wrong and should change, and once I realized that, there was really no going back.

Power comes at a price, love," Veliss replied through bared teeth, maintaining the smile she offered to the townsfolk lining the square."What power?""All power. The power to rule, to kill, or, in your case this fine morning, the power to incite the lust of the old goat you're about to meet.""Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone."Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. "Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.

Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.

Personal ignorance leads to a negative impact on the society.

Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect. Human rights aren’t lying around waiting to be discovered. They’re made, not found.

Speed is the ability to take a decision in a few seconds

Most people who possess life in reality, do not quite understand what they possess.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

Some people are not meant to live together, for they will destroy one another and annihilate themselves. Wolves and sheep cannot be put in the same place, for after eating the sheep, the wolves will starve to death.

It is our business to proffer solution to the problem of the society.

We all have that divine moment, when our lives are transformed by the knowledge of the truth.

The harbour of influence is richer in the cemeteries where people are buried with their music on their tongues unsung. Don't leave your potentials untouched!

The essence of Agile movement, whether in new product development, new service offerings, software applications, or project management, rests on two foundational goals: delivering valuable products to customers and creating working environments in which people look forward to coming to work each day.

She was perfectly sane in streets unknown. She loved conversing with people tagged as strangers. She was social, amiable & all that is her. Yet, with known people she felt unknown, she choked words and fought inside. And indeed she tripped insane while traversing those streets known. She stared at others and consumed their happiness through senses cold. And so she waits for Winter's warmth to touch her in streets of distant shore, in her own world of simple happiness.

Hope, strive and try to be more like Christ until the day we will see Him. Let Him find you faithfully and in obedient serving Him. He is coming quicker than people think.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’,my dad used to say ‘this is my house I pay the mortgage’,my generation is saying this is my house I pay the rent.

Everyone had their own responsibilities, duties and feeling, only you don't have yourself, when you are in love.

History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!

Always put people first, for without them, there is no organization

There's no ideology, only people.

Anyone who constantly makes you unhappy belongs in someone else’s world, not yours.

Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.

Good People bring out the good in other people.

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.

Gratitude isn’t innate. It’s a habit that has to be learned through practice.

Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

We celebrate God when we share in each other’s joy and pain

Although these negative statements that we speak over people’s lives are ‘simple English’, they tend to be sticky and their damage is huge. Sometimes, these negative words or statements can have lasting adverse effect on the life of an individual.

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.

Pastor Face Your Business” When people say this they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach

Many people are confused by their own behavior