“We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.”
Ethel Percy Andrus
“We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.”
Ethel Percy Andrus
"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Matthew 7: 12, “The Golden Rule” (Jesus) [KJV (1611)]
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Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 100 (1955)
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"Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."
Cesar Chavez
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"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."
W. H. Auden
"One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."
Lewis Carroll
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A quotation from Ingersoll, Robert Green:
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If you want to be happy yourself, if you are truly civilized, you want others to be happy. Every man ought, to the extent of his ability, to increase the happiness of mankind, for the reason that that will increase his own. No one can be really prosperous un…
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Samuel Johnson