“People just weren t interesting. Maybe they weren t supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn t understand it.”
“Why do these people love you, Archer? Is it simply because you show little or no response to their affection?”
“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”
“You need to stop this defeatist aura around you. When you project sadness, you push people away.”
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.”
“You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back”
“People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.”
“If a man realizes who he is, he will not react to the negative things surrounding him”
“Imitate the traits of your creator”
“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”
“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won t all be poor.”
“When you re the most happening person at the party, it s time to leave”
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”
“I love mankind ... it s people I can t stand!!”
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It s time to put an end to this. It s time for us to let ourselves be loved.”