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No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Francis Marion Crawford

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

I have a sense of having just left without saying goodbye, and of this whole other world just kind of fading away. … I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Lawrence Lovasik

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. 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.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.

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?

It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

Harry Stack Sullivan

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Frédéric Bastiat

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or to do in half a dozen lifetimes.

J. B. Priestley

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in 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.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Lawrence Lovasik