Persons Quotes - Page 23

• And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

  John Green

  Worry, Dying, Sides

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.685, Penguin

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• The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Eye, Reflection

  "Manuscript Found in Accra". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2012.

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• [Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God.

  Reza Aslan

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Community

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• Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Successful, Judging, Action

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.183, Macmillan

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• [I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Years, Joy

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• It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Fighting, Emotion

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• ...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Order, One Day

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.281, Wordsworth Editions

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• Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.

  E. Nesbit

  Sorry, Love You, Mean

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

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• How did thie person-someone I'd imagined would be my polar opposite-always seem to find the things that would make me the happiest?

  Kiera Cass

  Opposites, Would Be, Seems

  Kiera Cass (2013). “The Elite”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• His warmth was all around me, as was his love, and again, I felt that completeness. I had that missing piece of my word back. The soul that complemented mine. My match. My equal. Not only that, I had my life back -my own life. I would protect Lissa, I would serve, but I was finally my own person.

  Richelle Mead

  Missing, Soul, Pieces

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• Maybe if I try hard enough, we'll fall into each other and become one single person and we can share our pain instead of carrying it by ourselves.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Pain, Fall, Trying

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Redemption of Callie and Kayden”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Factories

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive sort, then you're more apt than the average person to feel pleasantly overwhelmed by Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" or a well-turned phrase or an act of extraordinary kindness. You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience.

  Susan Cain

  Strong, Kindness, Average

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

  Gavin Extence

  Silly, Past, People

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• You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

  Eloisa James

  Doors, Forever, Easy

  Eloisa James (2009). “Duchess by Night”

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• You’re a solid person, Sage. You’re easy on the eyes, if a little skinny, and your ability to memorize useless information is going to totally hook in some guy.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Guy, Hook

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.261, Penguin

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• Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.

  Alice Munro

  Children, Years, Different

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• We are not made up only of our light and happiness but also of darkness and sorrow. To deny the darkness of yourself is to deny half of who you are, and when you love, truly love, you need to love the whole person not just the part that smiles and waves, but the part that thinks murderous thoughts and knows that pain is both pleasure and temptation, but still thinks puppies are really cute.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Cute, Pain, Love You

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Bullet: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.5, Penguin

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• He doesn’t love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn’t know any better. When I trusted everyone. I’m not that person any more. He’s just a boy. He was the first to really hurt me, but he’s just a boy. There were a lot of them.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Boys, Fifteen

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

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• The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays.

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  Ram Dass

  Giving Up, Moving, Order

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, Now be Here, Now Here be”

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• There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have no idea how many interesting people you'll meet after high school's over. Your life partner, your best friend, the most wonderful person you'll ever know is sitting in some high school right now waiting to graduate and walk into your life - maybe even feeling all the same things you are, maybe even wondering about you, hoping that you're strong enough to make it to the future where you'll meet.

  Matthew Quick

  Strong, School, Ideas

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• Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a doubt that the whole purpose of your life so far-every choice you made, every twist of fate along the way-was just a journey to get you to that person. My life started when I met Clea. Every minute without her is just killing time until we can be together again.

  Hilary Duff

  Meaningful, Fate, Journey

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• There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

  Stevie Nicks

  Writing, Fantasy, Depends

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• But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?

  Kiera Cass

  Way, Certain, Speculation

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• You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.

  Roald Dahl

  Teacher, School, Mean

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