Top 100 Quotes About Another Person
#1. You cannot change another person's mind or educate them; this they must do themselves.
Bryant McGill
#2. Success is not defined by status, money, education, career or another person but rather by the level of peace that I have within myself.
Liza Lugo
#3. To allow your Spirit to manifest, you have to understand Its nature. Spirit can never be aggressive, can never dominate. It respects the freedom of another person because It's a free being.
Nirmala Srivastava
#4. You can't plan to reach another person on a deep level, it just happens. So those are the moments that I think I really live for.
Hayley Williams
#5. I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love ...
David Bowie
#6. If another person were to enter the building, it would once again be empty.
Seth Klarman
#7. All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag
#9. Why would I give up so much to just be another singer or another person doing what he loves? I'm out here doing everything to the best of my capability to be the best.
Justin Bieber
#10. If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual,
Carl R. Rogers
#11. The box was beginning to feel like another person in my house, a person with too much power for the space she took up.
Diane Chamberlain
#12. The simple act of being completely attentive and present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being. It is happiness that isn't bound to a particular situation, happiness that can withstand change.
Sharon Salzberg
#13. When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There's no higher calling.
Paul Zane Pilzer
#14. I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships.
Bong Joon-ho
#15. Dat had always told her that whenever you got angry at another person, it was an opportunity to take a glimpse of your own faults.
Tricia Goyer
#16. How ignorant can you be to hurt another person? You cannot hurt someone else without hurting yourself first.
Debasish Mridha
#17. I don't know if I'm okay. It shouldn't be possible to be this close to another person. To let them crawl inside you.
Katja Millay
#18. Strength is finding the courage to let another person in. Strength is opening your heart to him and exposing yourself in all vulnerabilities- No matter how terrifying that may be.
Scarlett Edwards
#19. While pity shows a lack of respect for other human beings, compassion has its roots in a deep respect for others. Pity is an emotion; compassion is a connection. Compassion sees the other as equal. Compassion happens when we care for another person enough to make his or her problems our own.
Matt Litton
#21. How do you control another person? Two ways. Trust, or fear. People and animals will follow you if they trust you. But trust must be earned. And it is earned by people who are good and great. So if you're neither good nor great, you can only use fear ...
J.H. Myn
#22. I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.
Billy Graham
#23. Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.
Meg Ryan
#24. Sometime be yourself is better than another person
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#26. This type of psychological loneliness is perhaps felt most acutely when we are as close to another person's body as is humanly possible. As the poet William Butler Yeats wrote rather dramatically, The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
Jesse Bering
#27. [Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens
#28. Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#29. We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.
Gina Barreca
#30. What is true for a given person in a given situation is not necessarily true for that person in a different situation, or for another person in the same situation, and still less if both are different.
Michael Dibdin
#31. If a writer has the desire to communicate by writing and be heard, then he necessarily cares about seeing it in print. I suppose it's the difference between masturbation and making love - the real writer wants to touch another person.
Edmund White
#32. True submission comes from a place of strength, ... because submitting means choosing to make yourself vulnerable to another person. It takes real guts to do that. It isn't weakness at all - exactly the opposite, in fact.
Indigo Wren
#33. I can't imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don't know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me.
Rachel Klein
#34. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela
#35. One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
#36. When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
Barbara Kingsolver
#37. Love is the strongest and most beautiful thing we can bestow on another person..
Corinne Michaels
#38. All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. Is that what love is supposed to look like? Wanting the best for another person, regardless of what it means for yourself?
Django Wexler
#40. Another person closes you off from the world, but without anyone else there you are like a grain of pollen, vulnerable to or open to all these fleeting relationships. After
Deborah Meyler
#41. What we had was real. I felt like I'd been waiting my entire adult life to feel that way about another person when in reality I was. I was waiting for Radek and hadn't even known it.
Michelle Dare
#42. he watched it with curiosity. It was strange to be conscious of another person's existence, to feel it as a close, urgent necessity; a necessity without qualifications, neither pleasant nor painful, merely final like an ultimatum.
Ayn Rand
#43. What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
Stephen Covey
#44. You never know how much another person loves you until you give them the chance to show you.
Monica Beaky
#45. Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it's ok to kill another person who doesn't believe in their God.
Rachel Weisz
#46. Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
Seth Godin
#47. I always figure, you come to a party, you gotta know somebody. And somebody leads to another person and leads to somebody else, somebody else. That's one of things that I really enjoy doing.
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
#48. A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.
Isabel Allende
#49. Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about
Kevin Bales
#50. You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.
Jerry Stahl
#51. It's a cruel fact of war that it takes little more than applying pressure to one finger to end another person's life. More than that, it's a cruel fact of life that we are hardwired to follow the crowd in a moment of panic.
Trevor D. Richardson
#53. When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can get-to another person only makes it clear the impassable distance between you.
Nicole Krauss
#54. I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.
Gary Oldman
#55. No one can reason with another person so furious she can barely see straight. Well.
Alexandra Bracken
#56. The reason why it is easy to kill another person must be that one's imagination is too sluggish to conceive what his life means to him - the infinite possibilities of a succession of days which are furled in him, & have already been spent.
Virginia Woolf
#57. Prayer still works, you need not be so quick to judge another person. You never know what they are going through. Instead, pray for them. Send encouragement their way.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#58. He seemed never to have acquired a skill that we all need: the ability to make another person worry about us.
Stephen Grosz
#59. When we're willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we activate the Law of Divine Compensation.
Marianne Williamson
#60. When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#61. Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being, that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart.
Caroline Myss
#62. The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
Esther Hicks
#63. Learning another language is like becoming another person.
Haruki Murakami
#64. Some consider haters, people that simply cannot be happy for another person's success. I just don't consider them.
Jon Luvelli
#65. Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.
Robert Bloch
#66. Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love - your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#67. fisselig (German):
Flustered to the point of incompetence. A temporary state of inexactitude and sloppiness that is elicited by another person's nagging.
Howard Rheingold
#68. Understanding someone's suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love's other name. If you don't understand, you can't love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#69. The gift you offer another person is just your being.
Ram Dass
#70. The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.
Fred Rogers
#71. Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another person is looking for. Two people searching together are always better than one person alone.
Shannon L. Alder
#72. Someone's enterprising idea of therapy is another person's frustrated hell.
Jodi Picoult
#73. You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
Maya Angelou
#74. I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.
Lisa Wingate
#75. Just because it's complicated, just because you think you can't ever know everything about another person, it doesn't mean you can't try.
Maria Semple
#76. [O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
Susan Sontag
#77. Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person ...
Elvis Presley
#78. As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.
Marianne Williamson
#79. If the 'effect' is experienced, [karmic] bondage is created. If one experiences the 'effects' alone by himself, the [karmic] bondage will not be sticky. If he involves another person in it, the karmic bondage will be sticky.
Dada Bhagwan
#80. A goal, however, is something distinctly different from a wish. It is clear, written, and specific. It can be quickly and easily described to another person. You can measure it, and you know when you have achieved it or not.
Brian Tracy
#81. It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.
Elizabeth Strout
#82. At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.
Christine Kenneally
#83. When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
Philip Yancey
#84. My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.
Beyonce Knowles
#85. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person." Alice Miller
Janae B. Weinhold
#86. How better to show your respect for another person's thoughts than by silence? Is it polite to cover those thoughts with your own ideas? What is polite about that?
Sue Harrison
#87. Another person: a door you can't enter, even by knocking.
Marty Rubin
#88. The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.
John R. Allen
#89. One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect
Sandor Marai
#90. If you're unhappy with another person's behavior, pray about it and be honest and open in dealing with it in the right kind of way.
David Jeremiah
#91. We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
M. Scott Peck
#92. One person's disability is another person's culture." As
Jodi Picoult
#93. It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
Tanith Lee
#94. The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
Martha Beck
#95. I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you're alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good medicine.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#96. Then, you were always captivated by self-sacrifice. However admirable, your eagerness to give your life over to another person may have been due in some measure to the fact that when your life was wholly in your lap you didn't know what to do with it. Self-sacrifice was an easy way out.
Lionel Shriver
#97. When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.
Shannon L. Alder
#98. But love? Who can say what is just a mire of dark needs and desires, and what is true love? Does such a thing exist? Can't it be that if we say, 'I love you' to another person and know that we mean it, then that is love, regardless of the motive?
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#99. Domestic abuse, also called intimate partner violence, is the systematic suffocation of another person's spirit.
Joanna Hunter
#100. The words 'come unto Christ' are an invitation. It is the most important invitation you could ever offer to another person. It is the most important invitation anyone could accept.
Henry B. Eyring
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