People Quotes - Page 5

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike; but those who fight with persuasion know no limits – not time, nor status, nor chance.

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!

What is society but an individual? [...] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?

You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day". Yeah, looks like He rushed it

So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition.

One person may look and only see a tree, whereas others may look and see a tree with leaves.

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.

Everyone is honest in their own right.. people begin to lie only when they are compelled to do it for others.

Stop being self-conscious when you write.
You are the expert about the world you are creating,
no one else. So be bold and write on.

I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.

The spirit of volunteerism is the spirit of service.

Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

This is our skin and nobody has the right to crumple us like a paper only to find another skin to write on, and then another, ruining people like they’re pages, like they are somehow replaceable. Because that will only leave our delicate and fragile selves into a tattered mess.