Lives Of Others Quotes - Page 3

• There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  EDWIN MARKHAM (1901). “LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS”

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• It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

  Hilary Mantel

  Mother, Phases, Ifs

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• I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'

  Keith Olbermann

  Long, Definitions, Life Is

  Cornell Senior Convocation Speech, May 23, 1998.

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• God’s definition of success is really one of significance-the significant difference our lives can make in the lives of others. The significance doesn’t show up in won-loss records, long resumes, or the trophies gathering dust on our mantels. It’s found in the hearts and lives of those we’ve come across who are in some way better because of the way we lived.

  Tony Dungy

  Heart, Loss, Differences

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• Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Writing, Heart

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.202, Macmillan

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• Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Use, World, May

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• Learning, traveling and comparing the world, writing outraged poetry, producing revolutionary art, demonstrating, holding the older generation-including their own parents and grandparents, responsible for destroying this country, and finally aiming at building a just, kind and beautiful nation called 'Indonesia'. This is much better and glorious than sitting in Starbucks, staring like idiots at uniformed smart phones, and basically killing ones life... and the lives of others... for nothing.

  Andre Vltchek

  Beautiful, Country, Art

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.

  Allen W. Wood

  People, Giving, Leader

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

  Jay Asher

  Life, Impact, People

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.84, Penguin

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• What you do to benefit the lives of others will ultimately also benefit you.

  Sharon Gannon

  Benefits

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• Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mind, Doe, Hardship

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Men, Tragedy

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2017). “Groucho and Me”, p.238, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

  Erlend Loe

  Animal, Together, World

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

  Paul David Tripp

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• It's important to be aware of how we treat others. Even though someone appears to shrug off a sideways comment or to not be affected by a rumor, it's impossible to know everything else going on in that person's life, how we might be adding to his/her pain. People do have an impact on the lives of others; that's undeniable.

  Jay Asher

  Pain, Impact, People

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.298, Penguin

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• Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

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• In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Past, Thinking, Essence

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• Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

  Jack Weatherford

  Leadership, Men, Goal

  Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.125, Broadway Books

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• Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Dream, Mean, Creating

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• We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system. That's clearly not the case when it comes to social systems.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Thinking, Order, Humanity

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• The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

  John Jay Chapman

  Heartbroken, Home, Ambition

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• The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.

  Alan Cohen

  Struggle, Creativity, Artist

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• Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

  Fred Rogers

  Senior, College, Differences

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.81, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

  Aberjhani

  Gratitude, Order, Giving

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.100, Lulu.com

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