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“A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.” A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Service to others is the rent we pay for our room in Heaven.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“Nothing is more usual than to feel that others have shared in our failures, just as it is an ordinary reaction to forget those who have shared in our achievements.” Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
“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
“if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“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
“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
“Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“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
“A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.” Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes
“Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“The truth is... you think what people want you to think.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“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
“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
“you may turn into an archangel, a fool or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.” Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph
“One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“If people don’t like you, or they think you’re strange, then that’s their problem.” Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” Confucius, Analects
“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
“People don't do me much good.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“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
“I lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have become calmer since I began to live only for myself.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“The idea that we shall die is more cruel than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that someone else is dead” Marcel Proust, The Fugitive
“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“It is strange that we, who are capable of so much suffering, should inflict so much suffering.” Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“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
“Our life is made by the death of others.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“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
“it is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to find out about our own can be no more than what other people have shewn us.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.” George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty
“The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“You mean to say you hold your colleagues in such high esteem that you care what they think?” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.” Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
“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
“our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Strive to love your neighbor actively and indefatigably.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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