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The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.
Sep 10, 2025
I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect. Most people opt for the easiest version rather than the best. But in the end which version lives, which version thrives and which version dies, depends on the choices we make and the people in our lives.
People and relationships never stop being a work in progress
Do not make homes out of people. This will leave you homesick and sad.
If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.
When you have an optimistic attitude and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.
Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
Find people who love you unconditionally, surround yourself with them, and bring them the same level of intensity.
When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.
It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.
Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean they’ll treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesn’t mean they’ll value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least.
You have no idea of how many people have control of your life. Make lists of people you trust and love and constantly examine the people in your life.
Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues.
If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.
Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.
Cherish the people you love, because you never know when Allah will take them back.
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!
The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.
Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.
Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely
Don't let other people decide who you are.
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.
Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.
I've gotten to the point where the label of "best friend" is so ridiculous. If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world. I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to. There's Jennifer [Stone], my friend Ashley, and Taylor, and my two cousins.
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence.
You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
When people show you who they are ... believe them!
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.