Quotes of: Personal-experiences Keyword

When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.

Journal of Discourses, Volume 9

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

The Joy Luck Club

But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

The Joy Luck Club

If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be deeper into idolatry than you think.

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude.

Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be.

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

Just Another War Story

The quest of the alchemists to turn lead into gold is a metaphor for our attempts to turn the base metal of ourselves, that person hooked on consumerism, filled with angst and ambition, into the gold of what we can be and really are.

Katie in Love

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

To Kill a Mockingbird

You know your vote doesn't count, but you go through the motions, because it's been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference.

The Rabbit Factory

Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

When caught under the weather of love, always choose the person who loves you unconditionally, and abandon the one who only loves you under favorable conditions.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs down a person’s potential.

Rise of the Morningstar

If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?

Rise of the Morningstar

Everyone is capable of hate, of wanting to hurt, even kill another person. But when those hatreds manifest themselves out of the mind and into real life, a line is crossed. The line between human and animal.

Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

One person cannot make up for the evils of a whole system and it is the system that is to blame - the system of narrowness and of pride, and of exclusiveness, and of no one doing anything for another, unless there is something to be gained in return.

The Rebecca Rioter

Who you are as a person has a lot to do with who you are as meat

The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers

Unconditional love is something people achieve once they’ve given themselves over completely to someone. Once they’ve decided that no matter what the other person does, they will always love them.

Revived

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept