Kahlil Gibran Quote

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

• Suffering

A person hears only what they understand.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Miguel de Unamuno

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Victor Hugo

• Woman
• Listening

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

Napoleon Hill

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Kahlil Gibran

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

Karl Lagerfeld

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

Javan

• Truth
• Listening

It is personal, very honest, intimate, I would say, but sometimes the story, the anecdote, can be more or less mine - or not mine.

Sophie Marceau

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

Liza Minnelli

• Reality

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Kahlil Gibran

• Mind

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Shirley MacLaine

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Stefan Zweig

• Misfortune

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Voltaire

• Words
• Poetry

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

Morgan Freeman

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.

Sophie Marceau

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.

Lucy Liu