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A nut without a kernel is nothing, just like a person without a heart.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

A person should always remember where he started in life. A person has no right to be fatherless.

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Having received wings, a person acquired the qualities not of an angel, but of Satan.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

An unsanctified person may relish and taste some sweetness in the delicious promises and discoveries of the gospel, by a misapplication of them to himself. But this is like the joy of a beggar, dreaming he is a king; but he awakes and finds himself a beggar still.

—John Flavel

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.

At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

—Plato

…the Christian is assured that though he may be a person who is physically disposed to be thoroughly alarmed, he may experience not only strength but positive joy in the midst of danger.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

It was not to the unsaved that the words “Do not fret” were spoken, but to God-fearing persons capable of understanding spiritual things. We Christians need to watch & pray lest we fall into this temptation by an irritable spirit under the stress & strain of life.

—AW Tozer

Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so.

René Descartes

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

—Marcus Aurelius

“If you make yourself a very reliable person and stay reliable all your life, faithfully doing whatever you engage to do, it will be very hard for you to fail at anything you want.”

Charlie Munger

“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

— Frida Kahlo

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

Abraham Maslow

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

— Abraham Maslow

A person who doesn’t recognize the beneficence of suffering has not yet begun to live a rational, real life.

—Leo Tolstoy

Just as all the water will flow out of a barrel if there’s so much as one little hole in it, so all the joy of love will drain out of your soul if in your soul there is enmity toward so much as a single person.

—Leo Tolstoy

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.

And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no partaking in the benefits of Christ without our sharing in his person, for the benefits are inseparable from his person.

—Herman Bavinck

There’s no reason to pity a person if he dies or loses his money, if he has no home or property, because none of those things belong to man. But there’s reason for pity if a person loses his one true possession, his highest blessing: his ability to love.

—Leo Tolstoy

It’s stupid for one person to consider himself better than other people, but it’s even stupider for an entire nation to consider itself better than other nations. And every nation, the majority of every nation, lives in this stupid and harmful sin.

—Leo Tolstoy

It’s stupid for one person to consider himself better than other people, but it’s even stupider for an entire nation to consider itself better than other nations. And every nation, the majority of every nation, lives in this stupid and harmful sin.

—Leo Tolstoy

They say that a good person can’t help but be angry with bad people. If this is true, then the better a person is, the angrier he must be. In reality, however, it’s the other way around: the better a person is the gentler and kinder he is with all people.

—Leo Tolstoy

They say that a good person can’t help but be angry with bad people. If this is true, then the better a person is, the angrier he must be. In reality, however, it’s the other way around: the better a person is the gentler and kinder he is with all people.

—Leo Tolstoy

He who talks a lot does little. A wise person is always afraid that his words will be greater than his deeds. Therefore, he’s more usually silent and speaks only when it is necessary for others rather than himself.

—Leo Tolstoy

He who talks a lot does little. A wise person is always afraid that his words will be greater than his deeds. Therefore, he’s more usually silent and speaks only when it is necessary for others rather than himself.

—Leo Tolstoy

If a person only thinks about himself and seeks his own benefit in everything, he’ll never be happy. If you want to live for yourself, live for others. Seneca

—Leo Tolstoy

The more a person lives for others, the freer and more joyful is his life. The more he lives for himself alone, the more his life is constricted and painful.

—Leo Tolstoy

“As soon as a person is converted and added to the church he should become the object of the care and kindness of his fellow members.”

Charles Spurgeon

Every person must remember that political borders and the multitude of governmental authorities are human creations, and that before God we are all inhabitants of one and the same Earth and all subject to God’s law, not some human authority.

—Leo Tolstoy

All you need to do is abandon established customs & superstitions & look at the position of every person who lives under a government, whether it be a despotic or the most democratic, & you’ll be horrified at the degree of slavery in which people live while imagining they’re free

—Leo Tolstoy

If a person understands his life is in his soul and not his body, you can put him in chains or lock him in iron locks and he’ll still remain free.

—Leo Tolstoy