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People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
Everything has rhythm. everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
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
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou
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
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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.
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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
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
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
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
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
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
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
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
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
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
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
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
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)
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
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
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
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