And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Spend time with people who know how to use their days well. Just as iron sharpens iron, positive people will inspire you to be positive.

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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. -Frank Zappa

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One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.

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I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

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Don’t let the voice of other people’s opinion drown your inner voice.

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When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out. —Eleanor Roosevelt

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I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.

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There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. — Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat’s Cradle

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. ― Oscar Wilde

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