Lisa Kleypas Quotes

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

I spend my life around people that are, like, bad people, if you want, and then deep down they're not. It's just the circumstances they've been given. A majority of people that are standoffish, it's because they lack the feeling that they're connecting to anything or that there's opportunity for them to get anything.

I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it's because my journey has been so bumpy.

I love to learn about people.

There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.

You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

People don't change just because you know more about them.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

A lot of people say if they could go back in time they would not change anything. But, to be honest with you, I like it and I don't like it. I like the fact that all I went through as a youngster made me a great man, but just goin' through what I went through - I wouldn't wanna go through that again. I wouldn't wish that on nobody.

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.