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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

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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton

Same, Makes, Getting

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain

Life, Real, Words

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt Cobain

Someone, Else, Waste

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear, Care, Afraid

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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Rosa Parks

Life, Live, Others

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson

Cool, Nothing, Another

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Audrey Hepburn

Him, Others, Tell

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

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt

Trouble, Sit, Month

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
Angelina Jolie

Life, Hurt, Live

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Age, Yourself

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost

Life, Sometimes, Body

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

Humor, Sense, Road

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
Dalai Lama

Life, Good, Food

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain

Idea, Until, Crank

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Sorry, Angry, Nothing

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato

Play, Year, Hour

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
Mark Twain

She, Call, Quite

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Mark Twain

Society, Made, Skin

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain

Good, Ourselves, Breeding

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain

Why, Involved, Birth

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain

Cannot, Able, Against

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey

Life, Humor, Good

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Wayne Dyer

Alone, Lonely, Cannot

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

Nothing, Democracy, Him

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mahatma Gandhi

Everything, Moment, Motives

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya

Beauty, Education, Best

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson

Law, Guilty, Dangerous

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
George Carlin

Inside, Cynical, Idealist

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