Quotes about Others

Points to ponder: Have you a method by which you can shield yourself against the negative influence of others? Are you easily influenced by others, against your own judgment? Do you form your own opinions or permit yourself to be influenced by other people?

You will find happiness only by helping others to find it.

Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others.

He who is controlled by objects Loses possession of his inner self: If he no longer values himself, How can he value others? If he no longer values others, He is abandoned. He has nothing left!

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean, first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.

All these three answers are insufficient. The third says we must love only ourselves. The second says we must love only another. The first says that in loving another we simply seek the most effective way to love ourselves. The true answer, which is supernatural, tells us that we must love ourselves in order to be able to love others, that we must find ourselves by giving ourselves to them. The words of Christ are clear: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

my only journey of concern was to be like the sun, to make it through the day offering as much light and warmth and consistency for others as I could—one single day. Each day.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.