“All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.”

“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

“One must be ruthless with one’s own writing or someone else will be.”

John Berryman (1914–1972) American poet

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“One suffers as a result of one's own actions. So, instead of blaming others for such sufferings, one should pray to the Lord and depending entirely on His grace, try to bear them patiently and with forbearance under all circumstances.”

Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna

“I'm losing Savanna.
That's good. No one should own someone else.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“Cease to know or to tell
Or to see or to be your own
Have someone else's will as your own
Have someone else's will as your own.”

Nico (1938–1988) German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Crime and Punishment

“Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”

Jack Welch (1935) American executive: General Electric CEO

“All defensive responses to criticism are natural. (It is natural to think of our own perspective before someone else’s.)”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate