P Quotes
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“People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts.”
Source: What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
“People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks.”
“People can have all the expectations that they want, but I know that you never know what's going to happen in life. Everything is part of the journey.”
“People can have great riches, but without honesty, they never have true respect.
People can have abundant love, but without honesty, they never have real trust.
People can have many friends, but without honesty, they never have loyalty.
People can have sharp minds, but without honesty, they never have admiration.
People can have fame, but without honesty, they never have honor.
Without honesty, a person’s light may flicker, but it will never truly shine.
Without honesty, people are left with only lies.”
Source: Look into the stillness
“People can have lovers..they can have friends..they can be together..but when you think about it..you'll see that originally..we're alone”
“People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.”
“People can have political opinions and put them into songs. I'd never deliberately do that, but that's a personal choice I'm inspired by my man but not by his previous position. I'm more inspired by people that are left out by society.”
“People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.”
“People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.”
“People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you.”
“People can heal themselves, and also during that process they can work together and focus on healing the planet.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics or young girls, or older girls. The way I talk is the way I write a song.”
“People can help us heal, can give us medicine, advice, many forms of help, but nobody can manage our minds for us.”
“People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.”
“People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this; boredom is an easy way to be drained.”
“People can judge me on whatever level they think but I've always tried to make my own songs.”
“People can learn a lot from one another if their need to be right falls away.”
“People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic.”
Source: Breaking Murphy's Law: How Optimists Get What They Want from Life - and Pessimists Can Too
“People can leave, and then they can come back. It sounds simple, like an obvious thing. But when I realized that, the truth if it seemed important.”
Source: Love Letters to the Dead
“People can leave seasteads, or people can choose them, and people can create new seasteads if they want. This fluidity will engage an evolutionary market process that'll allow a diversity of societies to emerge that will in principle be superior, simply because people chose them. Governments on land don't allow this fluid dynamic of choice.”
“People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.”
“People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility.”
“People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.”
Source: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
“People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.”
“People can live without a giant state. We've proven that already. But a giant state cannot live without dependent people. We feed the beast that puts us in shackles of our own creation. They are dependent on us. We think of revolutions as gunfire in the streets. But a soft and creeping tyranny can be beaten with a soft and creeping revolution. Think about it. Think about all the ways the totalitarian state is dependent on your personal actions. Think about what you do every day to help feed this beast and then stop doing that!”
“People can look at me any way they want to. If somebody meets me and hangs out with me, they can see what kind person I am. I can't change for people.”
“People can look different from hour to hour depending on the angle of daylight.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“People can look in the same direction and see different things or people can look in different directions and see the same thing! Why? Because it is the eye that looks, but the mind that sees!”
“People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.”
“People can lose so much skin that it has a huge effect on the body and when they scar they are affected for life. I've worked in this area and have for years tried to improve spray on skin cells, but this is just one part of the jigsaw towards making it better. We needed to get it on quicker then we can reduce the scarring. That's my motivation, my drive towards making it better.”
“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
Source: Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories
“People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.”
Source: The Body of Christopher Creed
“People can make a real difference. One person at a time, one job at a time, one life at a time.”
“People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.”
Source: Collected Papers
“People can make it hard for you, they can discourage and take the heart out of you, but in the end the only person who can kill your dream is you. Don't ever give up.”
Source: Midnight at Tiffany's
“People can make progress, if they exercise the power to act.”
“People can make progress through prayer for power act.”
“People can make symbolic gestures but doesn't mean their life changes. One philanthropic moment doesn't make a life of renewal; of change.”
“People can make you feel guilty only if you allow them to.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“People can malign your reputation all they want; you simply must trudge on. Concede defeat if they succeed in tarnishing your character before God Almighty”
“People can never get enough of something new and different.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“People can never identify with you until they see a future in you".”
“People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.”
“People can not be separated from their environment. Living consciousness is not an isolated unit. Human consciousness is increasing the order of the rest of the world and has an incredible power to heal ourselves and the world: in a certain sense we make the world as such, as we wish.”
“People can only be content when there is enough food.”
“People can only be found in what they do.”
Source: The wars
“People can only be free if they are truly educated.”
“People can only function at their best if they know that what they do actually matters beyond the corporate front door.”
“People can only inspire you for a moment, but only the fire within keeps that inspiration lit.”
“People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.”
Source: Journey of Life: Selected Poems of Daisaku Ikeda