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Quotes About Others

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent. Enlarge your personality without including anything from the outside – asking nothing from others and imposing nothing on others, but being others when you need them. Reduce your necessities to a minimum, so as not to depend on anyone for anything. It's true that such a life is impossible in the absolute. But it's not impossible relatively.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Everything belongs to others except my regret that it doesn't belong to me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Kindness is a temperamental caprice and we do not have the right to make others the victims of our caprice however humane or tender-hearted.
~ Fernando Pessoa
From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don't look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Most people haven't figured out when you are of service to other people outside of just yourself, the doorway for opportunity and blessings come in a very very different way.
~ Malik Yoba
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it's so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are 'others' whom we can legitimately make war upon.
~ Roger Waters
The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?
~ Hannah Kent
People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
~ Chris Hemsworth
There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.
~ Conrad Black
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
~ Carl Jung
For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not in the near term, but over time.
~ Howard Schultz
The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.
~ Susan Hill
On a broader level, white supremacy involves the way a society organizes itself, and what and whom it chooses to value.… And that's white supremacy without all the bluster: a set of practices informed by the fundamental belief that white people are valued more than others.
~ Robert P. Jones
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
~ Robert S. Lynd
Only in service to others, or God, could one be truly happy, unless that service was undertaken with a desire for status, power or wealth, and then the void would swallow you whole.
~ Robert Storey
Finally, the fundamental flaw, which will ultimately destroy this prohibition as it did the last one, is that criminal sanctions cannot, and should not attempt to, prohibit personal conduct which does no harm to others.
~ Robert Sweet
Others who habitually do their duty and find a sullen satisfaction in making themselves and everybody else unhappy, might have withstood it.
~ Robert W. Chambers
Indeed, routine biases, stereotypes, and prejudices are all examples of the negative voice toward others. These views tend to be supported by conventional attitudes that are very prevalent in our society and, for this reason, they are very difficult to challenge.
~ Robert W. Firestone
Poverty and simplicity were not shields from the greed of others. If you had nothing left to steal, they'd take your body and enslave it.
~ Robin Hobb
MUSKETEERS MAKE EMPATHY A HABIT. BE THE CHANGE—NOTICE, CHOOSE, ACT. VALIDATE OTHERS.
~ Lisa Scottoline
We all have freedom of choice. Over and over again, minute by minute. How will you live your life? For yourself Or for others? For something good? For love? Love.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
the people-pleaser struggles to do it with the right motive. Pleasing and glorifying God by serving others takes a backseat to serving others to promote and glorify self.
~ Lou Priolo
You think then, that it is better to have a few duties and live a little for others, do you?
~ Louisa May Alcott
Compasión: capacidad para sentir el sufrimiento del otro, el miedo del otro, la necesidad del otro. Entendimiento profundo del dolor de los demás que sólo se consigue tras haber entendido el dolor propio.
~ Rosa Montero