In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.
When people show you who they are ... believe them!
I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.
The people will come and go. Sometimes they'll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not. This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life.
Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.
Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.
One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life.
There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very loveable.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.
You were created to make somebody else’s life better. Somebody needs your smile. They need your love, your encouragement & your gifts.
God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.
You don't have to tell people what they're doing wrong. They already know. Your job is to love them.
Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.
If you raise the bar and offer your best to others then you deserve the same or better. Sometimes you have to divorce people who add no value to your life because they have nothing to offer but drama.
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