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Do to others as you would have them do to you.
- Luke 6:31 (the "Golden Rule")
Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79
He said to them, "Where is your faith?"
And they were afraid, and marveled, saying to one another,
"Who can this be?
For He commands even the winds and water,
and they obey Him!"
- Luke 8:25
Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
when he fell into the hands of robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him
and went away, leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road,
and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So too, a Levite [religious leader],
when he came to the place and saw him,
passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan [Samaritans and Jews generally disliked
and were suspicious of each other] came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds ... and ...
took him to an inn and took care of him. ...
Jesus [said] "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)
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I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
It would be insane for me to
lose sleep over the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
Some days just go to Hell faster than others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is far more impressive when others
discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
Take charge of your life!
You are responsible to yourself - not to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Those whom we can love, we can hate;
to others we are indifferent.
- Henry David Thoreau
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
If you can, help others;
if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
He who knows others is clever;
He who knows himself has discernment.
- Lao Tzu
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Essentially all suffering is the result of...
1. Comparing what we have (or don't have) today
... with what we had yesterday.
2. Comparing what we fear we might have (or not have) tomorrow)
... with what we have today.
3. Comparing what we have (or don't have) with what others have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who controls others may be powerful,
but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
- Lao Tzu
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike.
Each has their suffering.
Some suffer too much, others too little.
- The Buddha
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
He who conquers others is strong;
He who conquers himself is mighty.
- Lao Tzu
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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