Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions."
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Persons
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great."
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure."
Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"You have to be intimate with a person to know that person."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it."
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"For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again."
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"When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself."
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"In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine."
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"The person I miss most is the one I could have been."
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"Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior."
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"A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values."
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"I cannot change another person. I let others be who they are, and I simply love who I am."
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"Every great person educates themselves."
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"The more you get to know a person, the more attractive they become to you. Because everything beautiful you see on the inside of them, suddenly you see on the outside of them, too."
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"Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself."
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"I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone."
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"One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person."
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"I’m not the easiest person to live with. I’m kind of a slob."
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"I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person."
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"Be the same person privately, publically and personally."
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"Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."
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"You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do."
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"Happiness is inside you, not with another person"
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"There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take."
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"Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon."
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