Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
—Oscar Wilde
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don’t believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
“The surest road to our own happiness is to seek the good of others.”
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
—Carl Jung
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
—Thomas Aquinas
I hope we shall catch fire from each other, and that there will be an holy emulation amongst us, who shall most debase man and exalt the LORD JESUS. Only the doctrines of the Reformation can do this.
—George Whitefield
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
—Henry David Thoreau
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
—Carl Jung
“We do not want to go to heaven alone; we are most anxious to lead others to the Saviour.”
– Charles Spurgeon
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
—Charles Dickens
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
—Julius Caesar
Just as a candle only burns when the wax from which it is made is expended, so life is only real when it is expended for others.
—Leo Tolstoy
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
—Socrates
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.
Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
To love is to will the good of the other.
—Thomas Aquinas
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see
—Søren Kierkegaard
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
—Thomas Jefferson
One day people will stop fighting, waging war, executing people, and will begin to love one another. This day cannot be evaded, for within every person’s soul lies love, not hatred, toward others. Let’s do all we can to reach this day more quickly.
—Leo Tolstoy
All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
—Nikolai Gogol
Never believe that others can show you the way to a good life and that you can’t find it yourself. Pay attention to the inner voice of your reason alone and not to the orders and suggestions of others.
—Leo Tolstoy
There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses sight, hearing, and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
—Charles Darwin
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
—Plato
Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.
—Blaise Pascal
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
—Aristotle