"I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me."

-- Fantasia Barrino

#People Quotes #Mind Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“You don't love people for what they can give you. You don't love them because of what they do for you or how good you make them look. Love is blind, love does not boast, love is not vain.”

Source : Shelly Crane (2011). “Significance: A Significance Novel”, p.13, Kiss Me Publications, LLC
“Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.”

Source : Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company
“Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to be kidding! There's no one on the globe who will be able to accompany you" and no one ever did. [Scott LaFaro] was playing atonally and certainly Ornette was not an atonal player. Jimmy Garrison was a tonal player. He wasn't even polytonal or atonal.”
“He was right. They could have a whole conversation without exchanging a word. And the conversation they had right now went like this: Colin, shut it. I donâ€™t think I will, M. Then Iâ€™ll make you. Really? How?Iâ€™m not certain, but it will be slow and painful. And I wonâ€™t leave any evidence.”
“If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.”
“The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google. It was a surprising show of integrity from the guys who invented the app that lets you look at pictures of ***** for five seconds.”
“Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?”
“My mom and my shows is not a good mix. She came one time and I'm not letting her come again!”

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