Persons Quotes - Page 33

• The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper legal relationship - for example, to think of a man as legally lost, which he is, in the sight of a holy God - without thinking of him as a person. Saying this, we can suddenly see that much evangelism is not only sub-Christian, but subhuman - legalistic and impersonal.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Men

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.133, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Funny, Self, Understanding

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• Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

  Claude Pepper

  Retirement, Security Systems, Elderly

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• Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

  Laurence J. Peter

  Jobs, Giving, Poverty

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• What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Names, Numbers

  John Ruskin (2015). “Unto This Last”, p.244, John Ruskin

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• It is once your ideas have been transformed into enough money, and if all failed, you would still live your lifestyle, and you understand that just because you have made more money than most, you are not better than the common person. We are all going to die broke.

  Tim Blixseth

  Life, Money, Ideas

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• Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Life, Money, Essence

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• Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Said Life, Years

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.898, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wind, Vision, Doe

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• On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Two, Communism

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.4, Regnery Publishing

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• We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Unjust, May

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.100, Beacon Press

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• Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay - whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Horse, Believe

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1417, Best Books on

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• I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn't be associated with her because it wasn't the type of person I wanted to be.

  Amber Riley

  Best Friend, Bullying, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To make it more immediate, he recommended imagining ourselves in their place. Particularly painful is his image of a mother with no arms watching as a raging river sweeps her child away. To contact the suffering of another being fully and directly is as painful as being in the woman's shoes.

  Pema Chodron

  Mother, Children, Animal

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• Children, don't waste a single second.
  Serve others, above all the poor,
  expecting nothing in return.
  Just as the person who offers God flowers
  is the first to enjoy their fragrance,
  the person who offers compassion
  is the first to receive its blessing.
  Wherever a heart beats
  with compassion:
  God is there.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Flower, Heart

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• The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote to anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion. That is why the practice of compassion is a very wonderful practice.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Compassion, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.85, Penguin

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• A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

  Mary McCarthy

  Pain, Reading, Class

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Special

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• Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.

  Elliot Aronson

  Self Esteem, Lows, Self Justification

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• We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.

  Catherine Ponder

  Self Esteem, Quality, Watches

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• But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Self Esteem, Office

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self Esteem, Psychological Health, Care

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• At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

  Phil McGraw

  Fun, Smart, Self Esteem

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Confused, Way, Wanted To Be Loved

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