Person
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Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
I know my soul is beautiful; I know I'm a good person. And that will never change for me.
The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.
To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.