Best People Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Give yourself a gift: the present moment. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now. And just as mortal. What does it matter to you if they say -x- about you, or think -y-?”

“Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.”

“There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.”

“...there's not enough of anything to go around except people and death.”

“In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?”

“Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?”

“And that’s when I realize that, at the end, we’d all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.”

“Aren't you afraid of dying?”

“All my life I’ve been going in circles. I bypass zeroes.”

“But things change, people change, Gaby. Otherwise what would be the point of living?”

“Don't let the people, who aren't worth it get to you. Focus on those who love and accept you for who you are and shower them with love.”

“A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness.”

“Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.”

“I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...”

“The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.”

“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.”

“As you go on with your life, always remember the things that are good in you. They're your gifts. As long as you have these things, you'll find happiness, and you'll make the people around you happy.”

“When I feel my poetry touches someone's heart or mind, I'm fulfilled.”

“Life is a poem most people never read.”

“The aching in my chest”

“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people come and go as they please, because you’re simply too unimpressed to care. You let people in who you really shouldn’t let in, and you let them walk around for a while, use your bed and use your books, and await the day when they simply get bored and leave. You’re still not bothered, though you knew they shouldn’t have been let in in the first place, but still you just sit there, apathetic like a beggar in the desert.”

“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrow”

“I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden, disappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. It’s not sadness, though it may sound like it. I’m thinking about people and trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it’s hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.”

“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”

“I haven’t been very impressed lately.”

“It's odd how we prioritize the things the things that matter to us. We choose a career or job; we choose a city or place to live. We make so many things important to us, but in all the things we factor in as we craft our futures, we make the people in our lives a commodity of, at best, secondary importance. We would take a job and give up our people rather than choose a tribe and give up the job.”

“I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are.”

“Belief has nothing to do with facts,”

“You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.”

“We were so little when you took away all our sins.”