Persons Quotes - Page 15

• There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Mean, Blessing

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• It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Moving, Forever, Lines

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.424, A&C Black

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• In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ends

  "The Best of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2011.

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• It's important to be aware of how we treat others. Even though someone appears to shrug off a sideways comment or to not be affected by a rumor, it's impossible to know everything else going on in that person's life, how we might be adding to his/her pain. People do have an impact on the lives of others; that's undeniable.

  Jay Asher

  Pain, Impact, People

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.298, Penguin

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• There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

  John Steinbeck

  Kindness, Selfish, Mean

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

  "Life Togehter".

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• I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

  David Levithan

  Book, Dying, Way

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.11, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The difficult thing, the glorious thing, was to be who you really were, even if that person was cruel or dangerous, particularly if cruel and dangerous. There was courage in not distinguishing the animal you happened to be. On the other hand, you had to avoid pretending to be more of an animal than you were: take that path, start exaggerating or faking and you became just another Cubby, just as much of a liar, a hypocrite

  J. K. Rowling

  Liars, Hypocrite, Animal

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• Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or to experience that person’s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Eye, Exercise, Views

  Martha C. Nussbaum (2010). “From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law”, p.16, Oxford University Press

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• It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

  Lynda Barry

  Heart, Evil, Hatred

  Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy? I plan on being happy in the future for sure, but it isn't here yet. So what does that make me, exactly?

  Chris Colfer

  Doe, Sad Person, Littles

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• You were one person, and you changed the world.

  Mitch Albom

  World, You Changed, Changed

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• I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Falling In Love, Looks, Fiction

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.9, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.

  Chris Colfer

  Pain, Wish, Mountain

  Chris Colfer (2012). “The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell”, p.180, Hachette UK

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• Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

  Mother Teresa

  Sacrifice, Soul, Trying

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.33, Random House

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• That'd be walking into dangerous territory," he says, getting up from the sofa. "Luke is not a morning person.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Morning, Territory, Sofas

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• Anything can be real. Every imaginable thing is happening somewhere along the dimensional axis. These things happen a billion times over with exactly the same outcome and no one learns anything. Whatever a person can think, imagine, wish for, or believe has already come to pass. Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers.

  Eoin Colfer

  Dream, Real, Believe

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, Hyperion

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• I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to.

  Sara Zarr

  Oil, Anxiety, Routine

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• A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

  Tom Robbins

  Wall, Simple, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.241, Bantam

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• There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.

  Pope John Paul II

  Littles, Too Much, Dimensions

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• You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

  Haruki Murakami

  Distance, Heart, Talking

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• You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks

  Sarah Mlynowski

  Deals, Setback

  Sarah Mlynowski (2011). “Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Judgement, Fool, Conviction

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• She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Want, Better Person, Made

  Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”

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• Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

  Epicurus

  Littles, Sufficiency, Sufficient

  Epicurus (1963). “The philosophy of Epicurus: letters, doctrines, and parallel passages from Lucretius”

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