#truism

Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #inspirational #love #inspirational

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either. ↗

— David Almond

#family #friendship #inspirational #judgement #love

What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #selflessness #woman #inspirational

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do. ↗

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

#both #distinguish #i #i do #most

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#brian-tracy #evolution #evolve #giving #growing

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#almost #any #creed #cult #into

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny-quotes #humor-quotes #inspirational #iving #making-a-difference

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#communism #poverty #social-injustice #family

A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived. ↗

— Jackson Burnett

#cynicism #determination #fate #future #life-and-living

In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive. ↗

— Roman Payne

#death #dying #funny #humor #humour