People Are The Problem

Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
( Albert Camus )

A big part of wisdom is learning how to ignore things, like bull-shit, crap and nonsense.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
( René Descartes )

You speak to me with words.
I look at you with feelings.

We should always forgive, but we should never forget what’s been said and done.
( Dion Felsrow )

If you expect the world to be fair because you are fair, you are fooling yourself.
That’s like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn’t eat him.

You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is like an ocean.
If a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
( Mahatma Gandhi )

Stop believing you must see in order to believe.
Start believing you must believe in order to see.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth.
When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
( Thomas Sowell )

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude.
It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, but people continue to disappoint them.

You never really know someone until you say “No” to them.
( Len Firswood )

Always leave room in your garden for the fairies to dance.

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.
( Maya Angelou )

No matter how carefully you choose your words, someone will twist them.

Stop explaining yourself and telling people everything.
You owe no one any explanations of what you do.
Your life is yours, not theirs.
( Rose Winfold )

Walk a mile in my shoes.
Feel what I feel.
Then may be you will understand.

It’s funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. 
( Rick Riordan )

Men don’t change.
They just learn to disguise the lack of change. 
( David Gemmell )

It’s very sad that many people die every day without many other people knowing them.
( Rose Winfold )

The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind’s capacity to make things worse.
No matter how bad it gets, we’re all happy to screw each other over. 
( Mira Grant )

Are all humans human?
Or are some more human than others? 
( Romeo Dallaire )

In ten years from now make sure you can say that you chose your life, and you didn’t settle for it.
( Dion Felsrow )

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
( Thomas Sowell )

You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view, until you climb into their skin and walk around in it.
( Len Firswood )

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds.
But you can get lost in it.
You’ve got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present. 
( Lauren Kate )

Stay close to people that make you feel glad to be alive.
( Rose Winfold )

The greatest minds are like film.
They take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness.
( Brandi L. Bates )

Asking why, and how, and when, is the way to wisdom.
( Dion Felsrow )

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.
( E.A. Bucchianeri )

Now that I’m older and can look back and see where I missed a turn here and there, and know the price I paid for those oversights, I try to look sharper at the present. 
( Karen Marie Moning )

When it comes to other peoples’ lives, we often become very wise.
( Len Firswood )

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
( Rumi )

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God. 
( Thomas Sowell )

If you feel like you’re just drifting through life, then you’re wasting it.
( Rose Winfold )

Listening and observing with your undivided attention are the most easily accessible and cheapest forms of useful intelligence. 
( Melody Boates )

The most important lesson I have ever learned is that I haven’t learned anything.
( Michel Templet )

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image. 
( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )

Many of us jump to the worst conclusion possible and worry about it for hours.
( Dion Felsrow )

In a dark time, the eye begins to see. 
( Theodore Roethke )

The life you never live is greater than the wealth you never know. 
( Benny Bellamacina )

Questions left unanswered are sometimes the best proof for belief.
( Rose Winfold )

It is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.
( René Descartes )

 We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
( Dejan Stojanovic )

Find something you enjoy doing.
Do it, over and over again.
You will become good at it for two reasons.
You like it, and you do it often.
Soon, that will have value in itself.
( Adrian Tan )

If you are unable to deal with loneliness in a dream, you will never be able to while waking.
( Dion Felsrow )

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
( Buddha )

Expecting is my favourite crime.
And disappointment is my punishment.
( Len Firswood )

Today is the only day in which we have any power.
( Steve Maraboli )

Life, deal gently with her.
Love, never desert her.
( L.M. Montgomery )

Rules help us live our lives when we lose the will to do it on our own.
( Yvonne Woon )

Don’t blame people for disappointing you.
Blame yourself for expecting too much from them.
( Rose Winfold )

Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses. 
( René Descartes )

In Islam, you have to die for Allah.
The God I worship died for me.
( Franklin Graham )

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? 
( Thomas Sowell )

If you never went home, what exactly would you be missing?
( Len Firswood )

Life is a barter of choice and consequences.
( Samantha Sotto )

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
( Gregory Peck )

You finally come to realise that you shouldn’t be friends with people who never ask how you’re doing.
( Dion Felsrow )

We lie if we say we do not see colour and culture and difference.
We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same.
We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us.
Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see.
It is never a conformity that we need.
We need not to conform.
What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colours.
( C. JoyBell C. )

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
( René Descartes )

Being a Christian isn’t for sissies.
It takes a real man to live for God.
A lot more man than to live for the devil.
( Johnny Cash )

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen.
( Winnie the Pooh )

Sometimes, all I want is to just be alone.
Not because I hate everybody, and not because I’m sad.
I just like to be by myself sometimes.
( Thea Phala )

With reasonable men, I will reason.
With humane men I will plead.
But to tyrants I will give no quarter.
Nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
( William Lloyd Garrison )

For the best philosophy, or the most interesting history, I should still urge you to look into your bible.
( Elias Boudinot )