#others

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. ↗

#blaming #comes #decision-making #guessing #inadequate

I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#death #glbtq #life #love #death

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#only #others #prosperity #seen #some

Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you. ↗

— Alan Alda

#fair #keep #others #them #then

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#dickens #friends #greatest #many #mark

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others. ↗