Quotes about other
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“The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.”

Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist

“There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Children, People, Feeling

“One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.”

Dick Gregory (1932–2017) American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur

Happiness, People, Secret, Learning

“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

People, Justice, Sense

“I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Source: Animal Dreams

Happiness, People, Feeling

“Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.”

Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society

Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Problem

“Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Source: The Woman Destroyed

Love

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Variant: There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.
Source: Frankenstein

Love, Imagination, Rage

“There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

In Reckless Ecstasy (1904)

People, Truth, Way, Understanding

“The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Life, Beauty

“A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Help

“The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: Sweethearts

Way

“She was the one who was supposed to have walked with him through different lives, being born and loving and dying and being born again. They'd been born for each other, to help each other grow and blossom and discover and evolve.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 2

Love, Help

“I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: "Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you."”

Linus Pauling (1901–1994) American scientist

… The twenty-five percent is for error.
Pauling's reply to an audience question about his ethical system, following his lecture circa 1961 at Monterey Peninsula College, in Monterey, California.
1990s

Error

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Pain, Idea, Success, Training

“Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Life, People, Beauty

“If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

People

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Variant: Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet!

People, Feeling

“A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.”

Sarah Ruhl Eurydice

Source: Eurydice

Women, Wedding, Daughters, For Father

“Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.”

Beverly Cleary book The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Source: The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Love, Boy, Understanding, Nature

“You can never tell about a person by guessing… that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Dogs, Personality

“And how they kist each other's tremulous eyes.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

People

“If a man truly loves, he gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.”

Juliet Marillier book Cybele's Secret

Source: Cybele's Secret

Love, Truth, Feeling, Thinking

“Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.”

Bret Easton Ellis (1964) American novelist

Life, Error

“This is the one and only
firmament; therefore
it is the absolute world.
There is no other world.
The circle is complete.
I am living in Eternity.
The ways of this world
are the ways of Heaven.”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

World, Way

“she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Women

“Wisdom's daughter walks alone.
That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Wisdom, People, Daughters

“The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Thinking

“I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.”

Amy Krouse Rosenthal (1965–2017) author, a radio show host and producer, and filmmaker

Source: Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

Way

“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Age, Birthday, For Wife

“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”

Philip Reeve (1966) English children's writer and illustrator

World, Way, Heart

“Sarte was right, Hell is other people”

Tana French book The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

People, Hell

“Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.”

Irvine Welsh book Trainspotting

Source: Trainspotting

Change, Singing

“What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Way

“Other dads actually sat at the dinner table. Mine left me a fifty and a reminder to do my goddamn katas.”

Lilith Saintcrow book Strange Angels

Source: Strange Angels

“Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

People

“Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.”

Christopher Pike book Sati

Source: Sati

Waiting

“Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.”

Cal Newport (1982) American computer scientist

Source: So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

Passion

“Each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

World

“Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

War

“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”

Franz Kafka book The Trial

Source: The Trial (1920)

Understanding

“Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?”

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

Source: Ella Enchanted

Dance

“When its true, when it's right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience.”

James Patterson book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Love, Joy

“There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Men, Education, Appearance

“We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Sadness, Family

“There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we”

Ina May Gaskin (1940) American midwife

Men

“They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space."
"Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

Communication

“It is a waste, for silence is pure.
Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are
comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great
paradox.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

People, Silence, Drawing

“I liked, I admit, that we didn’t pretend there hadn’t been other girls. There was always a girl on you in the halls at school, like they came free with a backpack.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

School, Girl

“Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't go to yours.”

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

Yogiisms
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, ISBN 0786867752, p. 163.

People, Funny