I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree, at the right time and for the right purpose, in the right way, - that is not easy.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary
I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.
Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
“If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.”
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
It is more important to know what person has the disease than what disease the person has.
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease that person has.
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
If you don't embrace yourself first, do not expect from others to do so. Love the person because it's you.
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.
You may only be a person in this world, but for someone you're the world.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own
Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.
A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; most miserable the ones who enjoy the least pleasure
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.
Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.