Persons Quotes - Page 21

• Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Hurt, Feel Better, Forgiving

  Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.198, Sandesh S

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• I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter. "No one is just a woodcutter, " replied Terence. "A person's always more than his present occupation.

  Gerald Morris

  Occupation

  Gerald Morris (2008). “The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Laughter, Kindness

  "Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith". Book by Anne Lamott, 2007.

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• She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire to be a certain kind of person. He still likes that about her. Her smartness, the fact that she did not inherit that look or that beauty, but it was something searched for and that it will always reflect a present stage of her character.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Queens, Character, Desire

  Michael Ondaatje (1996). “The English Patient: A Novel”, Random House Inglaterra

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• A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Beautiful, Lonely, Loneliness

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• What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Depth, Height

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

  Milan Kundera

  Light, Darkness, Intense

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• I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

  John Scalzi

  Real, Fate, Care

  John Scalzi (2012). “Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas”, p.167, Macmillan

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• A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

  Judy Blume

  Curiosity, May, Wells

  Judy Blume (2009). “Summer Sisters: A Novel”, p.30, Delta

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• Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

  Hugh Prather

  Mistake, Responsibility, Thinking

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.11, Conari Press

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• It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Behind You, Claims

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.633, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Tricks, Novel

  "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays". Book by Zadie Smith, 2009.

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• That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.

  N.D. Wilson

  Morning, Doe, Not A Morning Person

  N. D. Wilson (2011). “The Dragon's Tooth (Ashtown Burials #1)”, p.268, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, People, Perfect

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• wait," I said. "so you're saying that you proposed to me because I'm a mess and I'm a person and because we need each other, while Rebecca was —— something else? I get it, I follow you, but I'm also thinking, is the bullshit getting a little deep in here?" "Yes, it is. You've caught me. And so fine, I will come clean, and I will tell you the absolutely true and naked reason why I want to marry you and only you, and not Rebecca." "Why?" "Because when I'm with you, I'm the pretty one.

  Paul Rudnick

  Thinking, Bullshit, Waiting

  Paul Rudnick (2013). “Gorgeous”, p.273, Scholastic Inc.

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• it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hate, Done, Forget

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• Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator . . . it would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I’d always be in the red.

  Pete Wentz

  Icons, Wish, Batteries

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• What are you looking at?” she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.

  Pete Wentz

  Mother, Children, Wife

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is more invested, it shows. If you're with the wrong person, it feels like too much work. But if you're unhappy more than you're happy, it's not the right relationship for you.

  Susane Colasanti

  Challenges, Unhappy, Tests

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• Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

  Rick Yancey

  Sensitive Person, Personality, Habit

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.132, Penguin

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• Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.

  Susane Colasanti

  Mean, Personality, Way

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.50, Penguin

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• Haven't you heard about me?" he said, with a tight smile. "I'm really a very dangerous person." And he did look dangerous until he said, "Look, could you watch Dog for me while I'm gone? I can't take him where I'm going.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Dog, Watches, Looks

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• Bountiful is your life, full and complete. Or so you think, until someone comes along and makes you realize what you have been missing all this time. Like a mirror that reflects what is absent rather than present, he shows you the void in your soul—the void you have resisted seeing. That person can be a lover, a friend, or a spiritual master. Sometimes it can be a child to look after. What matters is to find the soul that will complete yours. All the prophets have given the same advice: Find the one who will be your mirror!".

  Elif Safak

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

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• When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wish, Insane, Want

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• I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.

  Mary Oliver

  Trying, Break Out, Want

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.33, Penguin

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