#person

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#person

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#literacy #reading #person

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

#kick #month #most #pants #person

I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible. And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world. ↗

— Anne Rice

#dreams

The intelligence of the heart bypasses the intellect in the head which works on assumptions and requires a lot of thinking and confusion and makes a person tired and weak. But, the heart intelligence is not only direct and to the point, it also gives you energy, vitality and strength. ↗

— James Dillehay

#personal-development #sufi #sufism #intelligence

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#life

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#person #slow-down #the-last-song #life

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#black #colors #humanity #individuality #life

One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways of actually becoming more dangerous when we approach it with a bad attitude. ↗

— J.Z. Colby

#educational #personal-power #science-fiction #young-adult #attitude

I don't really trust a sane person. ↗

— Lyle Alzado

#person #really #sane #sane person #trust