Quotes About Others

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.

Who had ever expended so much passion on a dream, only to stand helpless as it was granted to others? Others, moreover, who had expended no passion on it at all.

The scream drew others. The others screamed, too, not because a girl was dead, but because the girl was blue,

One is you, two is me, three is her, four is she!

Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

children are "powerfully and permanently influenced" by how these significant others live their lives and their faith, by their moods, and by the stories they tell of their faith.[19]

The only question is this: Do you have enough empathy and yearning and desperation to connect to others outside yourself and scream into the void in four-part harmony?

Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

Unsere Narrheiten bezahlen wir gar gerne selbst, zu unsern Tugenden sollen andere das Geld hergeben.

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.

The enemy of fear is not courage," Jahno translated for her. "The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard.

Virtues can be developed through study and contemplation or, as this sutra suggests, through recognizing their presence in others. In other words, we should cultivate the habit of celebrating virtues wherever we recognize them. The more we rejoice in them, the sooner they will be ours.

The only way to create value for yourself is to create value for others.

But what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me? What others did was their responsibility, for which they would answer when the judgment trumpet sounded.

But he had the tendency of all wildly disorganized people to suppose that the lives of others were tamer and less sensual and more cerebral than his own.

what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me?

In our zeal to become the landlords of our own being, we cling to each achievement as a kind of verification of our self-proclaimed reality. We become the center and God somehow recedes to an invisible fringe. Others become real to the extent they become significant others to the designs of our own ego. And in this process the ALL of God dies in us and the sterile nothingness of our desires becomes our God.

Universal Love can take on many forms. It can be considered acceptance of yourself, or of others. Love is unconditional and it doesn't set terms. It is freedom. Love is freedom for you to be who you truly are inside, not what others think you should be. Love is never to force anything on anyone.

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.