(231 quotes found)
“All we really want is otherness, tossing from side to side, and greeting every toss with shouts of welcome, and of contempt for the previous toss”
Bernard Berenson
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
Abraham Lincoln
“My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.”
Anthony Robbins
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
Oscar Wilde
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
Benjamin Franklin
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”
Albert Einstein
“Stepping stones to the top don't always go up”
Bill Schuffenhauer
“We will get true and lasting change as soon as we make helping people a way of life instead of a business.”
Steve Maraboli
“I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle class morality”
George Bernard Shaw