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Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
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However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Time to Die:
A Zen teacher had a rare and priceless teacup.
One day, his precocious student accidentally broke the cup.
Hearing the footsteps of his teacher,
the student held the pieces of the cup behind his back.
When the master appeared, he asked: "Why do people have to die?"
"This is natural," explained the teacher.
"Everything has to die and has just so long to live."
The student showed the shattered cup, saying,
"It was time for your cup to die."
- Traditional Zen Koan
In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you can speak what you will never hear,
if you can write what you will never read,
you have done rare things.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Unlike presidential administrations,
problems rarely have terminal dates.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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