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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

Love, Freedom, Yourself

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

Pain, Giving, Find

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama

Change, Time, Waiting

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Love, Yourself, Someone

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Marriage, Successful

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Jealousy, Insecurity, Neurotic

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle

Time, Power, Angry

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa

Nothing, Poverty, Everybody

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.
Vince Lombardi

Strength, Knowledge, Successful

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
James C. Dobson

Live, Individual, Marry

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet

Beauty, Beautiful, Fun

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
Audrey Hepburn

Love, Important, Laugh

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Pope Paul VI

Life, Work, Today

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

Strength, True, Soul

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

Life, Love, Great

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain

Read, Won, Advantage

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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll

Different, Yesterday

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

Truth, Him, Give

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Happiness, Jealousy

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.
W. Somerset Maugham

Love, Happy, Same

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Whole, Last, Throughout

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim Valvano

Greatest, Father, Give

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha

Woman, Between, Behavior

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya

Honest, Screwed, Trees

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom, Human, Makes

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

Time, May, Done

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 G. Lovasik

Judge, Gossip, Speak

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain

Knowing, Patriot, Loudest

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln

Art, Greatest, Artist

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