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“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cannot be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

“No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.”

“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful”

“It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.”

“Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.”

“You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.”

“A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.”

“Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.”

“Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.”

“He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.”

“The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.”

“You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it… But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J. R. Isidore”

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

“There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.”

“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.”

“Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned.”

“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.”

“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.”

“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.”

“If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.”

“There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.”

“I love this quote when Valerian the King of the Nymphs says to his mate Shaye;

"I am Valerian, leader of the nymphs. You may call me Oh God, that is what the other surface dwellers have preferred to call me".”

“Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.”

“But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.”

“She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.”

“Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.”

“I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.”

“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”

“To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.”

“The house of Life doesn’t trust our family, especially after what Dad and Mom did. Amos said we were raised apart for a reason, so we wouldn’t trigger each other’s magic.”
“Bloody awful reason to keep us apart,” I muttered.”

“He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.”

“4. You hear his voice in a crowd more than any other.”

“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.”

“Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."

-Elinor Dashwood”

“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human 'wisdom'… and the other twenty percent isn't very important.”

“It’s not the pain that’s inflicted on us by others that destroys us. It’s the pain we let inside our hearts that does that. Don’t let the human’s anger become yours. It can drive you mad if you do. (M'Adoc)”

“Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.”

“You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.”

“I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act.
We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin.”
-In the yellow time of pollen”

“The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.”

“The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this problem by defying their elders and copying each other.”

“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”

“If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?”

“People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.”

“One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.”

“Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?”

“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?”

“For him, life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other”

“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”

“Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.”

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

“Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.”

“The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits”

“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.”

“You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home”

“No one behind, no one ahead.
The path the ancients cleared has closed.
And the other path, everyone's path,
easy and wide, goes nowhere.
I am alone and find my way.”

“One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”

“They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.”

“My son Asclepius had become the god of medicine by the time he was fifteen, and I couldn’t have been happier for him. It left me time for my other interests. Besides, it’s every god’s dream to have a child who grows up to be a doctor.”

“Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.”

“I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.”

“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.”

“To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”

“Because the world owes me nothing
And we owe each other the world.”

“Trust others to do the right thing. If you can't do that, trust yourself to survive what happens.”

“No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.”

“… only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”

“As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.”

“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”

“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.”

“The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.”

“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

“There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character… Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.”

“My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.”

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”

“Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.”

“You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.”

“With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.”

“The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.”

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

“War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.”

“Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.”

“Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.”

“What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells…”

“The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.”

“People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.”

“The two are now bound inextricably. Should one die, the other will follow. No wepon in this world can wound only one of them”

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

“I'm sure. But it doesn't work with me. for one thing, you won't look me in the eye. As for the other… I don't know. I can just tell.”

“Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.”

“You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.”

“We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.”

“Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.”

“It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.”

“Sometimes people leave you
Halfway through the wood
Others may decieve you
You decide what's good
You decide alone
But no one is alone”

“Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

“Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.”

“The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.”

“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.”