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“Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“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, “Long Walk to Freedom” - 1995

“Service to others is the rent we pay for our room in Heaven.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” Confucius, “Analects”

“Our life is made by the death of others.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.” John Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Discontent” - 1961

“every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“If people don’t like you, or they think you’re strange, then that’s their problem.” Nicholas Sparks, “A Walk to Remember” - 1999

“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.” Honoré de Balzac, “Father Goriot” - 1835

“For even as it is better to enlighten than merely to shine, so is it better to give to others the fruits of one's contemplation than merely to contemplate.” Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica” - 1274

“our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.” Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way” - 1913

“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” Lewis Carroll, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” - 1865

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” - 1841

“All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor the tranquility which others give. A man then must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Either you think—or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tender Is the Night” - 1934

“The truth is... you think what people want you to think.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Haunted” - 2005

“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.” Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” - 1943

“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.” Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” - 1943

“Strive to love your neighbor actively and indefatigably.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only...” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“People don't do me much good.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil” - 1886

“when they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.” C. S. Lewis, “The Screwtape Letters” - 1942

“the man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready” Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” - 1854

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