Quotes: People
(See also Isolation, Friendship, Relationships)

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"A beach house," he said, "doesn't even have to be on the beach. Though the best ones are.
We all like to congregate," he went on, "at boundary conditions."
"Really?" said Arthur.
"Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time.
We like to be on one side, and look at the other."
Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other--not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks.
Liv Ullman

A real person has two reasons for doing anything ... a good reason and the real reason.

Don't be humble ... you're not that great.
Golda Meir

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out on the pleasure.
Russell Baker

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.

The best index to a person's character is a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Goethe

Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt

No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less,
as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were.
Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind;
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne

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