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25 Quotes That Will Help You Understand People And Their Complexities

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Rania Naim
November 2, 2016
“When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.”
— Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
Tagged: Vanity, People, Social Interactions, Human Interaction, Human Social Dynamics, Governing Social Dynamics
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
— Charles Bukowski, The Last Night Of The Earth Poems
Tagged: Life, Existentialism, People, The Human Condition, Finding Meaning
“But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you'll never get rid of their criticisms, no matter how hard you try. ”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Criticisms, Approval, Judgments, Society, People, Fear
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”
— Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol In His Own Words
Tagged: Change, People, Human Nature, Changing Someone
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story
Tagged: Perfection, People, Love, Idealism
“People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing
Tagged: Love, People, Conflict, Consciousness
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Tagged: shakespeare, Flaws, humanity, Destiny
“Finally I understood that whenever people heard something unusual, they called it a dream.”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Dreams, Reality, People
“We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.”
— Johnny Depp, Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp
Tagged: People, Life, imperfect, Perfection, Human Psychology, Mental Health
“You can find the good in anybody if you just give them a chance, benefit of the doubt. Sometimes people disappoint you, sometimes they surprise you, but you never really get to know them until you listen for what's in their heart. that's what we should do. so for all you skeptics out there. prepare to be surprised.”
— Lucas Scott, One Tree Hill
Tagged: chances, heart, People
“Even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.”
— Meg Cabot, Shadowland (The Mediator #1)
Tagged: cruel, kindness, humanity
“The people you love most will hurt or destroy you on some level, whether it's in the immediate future or years down the road. So will your mother (if she hasn't already), your fiance, your husband, and your child. It doesn't make them horrible, worthless, or unredeemable. It just makes them human beings.”
— Kelly Cutrone, Normal Gets You Nowhere
Tagged: People, Relationships
“It's just, sometimes... people don't really say what they're really thinking. But when you capture the right moment, it says more.”
— Jonathan Byers, Stranger Things, Stranger Things Season 1: Chapter Four
Tagged: Stranger Things, Supernatural, Photography, humanity, People, Moments
“People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It’s foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better.”
— Chloe Rattray, Sacré Noir
Tagged: Expectations, INFP, Love, People, Relationships, Disappointment, Realism
“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Life, People, Bad People
“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”
— Dean Koontz, Strange Highways
Tagged: Darkness, Evil, humanity
“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Tagged: People, humans, Secrets, Trust
“Figuring out who people are takes time. And it takes twice as much time if they're trying to impress you.”
— Dr. Gregory House, House, Season 6: Private Lives
Tagged: People, Human Nature, Personality
“Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Life, People, self-reflection
“We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: People, Perception
“Shitty people will say and do shitty things, and the best thing you can do is ignore it.”
— Maya Kachroo-Levine, All The Reminders You Need To Get You Through Anything In Life
Tagged: People, Criticism, Judgments
“You realize that most of the people that you meet are trying to get somewhere better, they're trying to make a little bit more cash, trying to get a little more respect, have more people admire them. It's just exhausting.”
— Jesse, Before Sunset
Tagged: Life, People
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
— Audrey Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn: 19 of her most inspirational quotes
Tagged: People, Chance
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.”
— Audrey Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn: 19 of her most inspirational quotes
Tagged: People, Chance