If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
This life is a test, and we’re put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief – the other contempt.
Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
Fragrance is important to me because of its emotional dimension. I feel like fragrances are able to transport, stir emotion, and bring up memories. You can wear makeup, you can dress yourself up, but fragrance gives a powerful aspect to how you can present yourself that you can’t necessarily get any other way.
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.
Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
I owe my solitude to other people.
In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
We don’t really have any big family traditions; just spending time with each other is the most important part.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Someone may ask, ‘How is justice greater than all the other virtues?’ The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they’re feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.
Thankfully, I have other skills than just standing there and looking cute.
Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you’d never dream of doing by yourself.
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It’s not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse.
People change and forget to tell each other.
Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.
Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don’t just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.
That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
People are pretty because they’re nice, and they care about other people, and they have a good heart. That’s what makes you pretty, and I didn’t know that at one point in my life.
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.
A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic.
