Browsing Topic Best People In Your Life Quotes

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can’t. What you’ve got to do is turn around and say Watch me.

Give thanks to the people you can always turn to; they are your Earth angels.

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Some people are part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

There are some people in your life who bring back old memories. And there are others – your first kiss, your first love, your first sex – who, the moment you see them, bring a spark…and something far more potent. They bring back your old life and with that, potential. And possibilities. And the feeling that if you were back in that time, life could be so very different from where you’re stuck right now. That’s the most tantalizing thing….I want my potential back.

Don’t let other people decide who you are.

If you raise the bar and offer your best to others then you deserve the same or better. Sometimes you have to divorce people who add no value to your life because they have nothing to offer but drama.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It’s more important than anyone else could ever be. I don’t want to be overly dramatic and say it’s the only thing that gets me up and keeps me going. But people in your life come and go. As you go through your life, you make friendships, you break friendships, you have relationships. Music is the one thing I’ve always been able to rely on.

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.

One of the best parts of the holiday season is spending time with the special people in your life.

Life is hard enough, so when you can get any joy out of it, whether it’s something you do on a day-to-day basis, or the people in your life, or going to see a funny movie, there’s just nothing better. That’s what life is about.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you’re going to live forever. It’s only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.

I don’t believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

You are your only hope, because we’re not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we’re aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

Hate no one, no matter how much they’ve wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you’ve been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love.

I think the people in your life are the people that – when you can make other people happy and you can give things to your family and your friends, you know, that’s really obviously what life is all about. But it doesn’t have to be children. It doesn’t have to be a husband. It can be whatever you make it.