Quotes on Persons

And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness.

Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.

Train your mind to see in all people, what they do not see in themselves. Begin to treat every person you come in contact with as the most important person in the world. Look at them with new awareness.

The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.

When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.

Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not, some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.