Happy For Others? - 4 views
Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (Victoria Moran)
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Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (Victoria Moran)
How many of us have felt the negative effects of the lack of patience in our daily lives? I know I do, both from my own lack of patience as well as from others. Patience allows time to either make...
We shouldn't believe everything that our thoughts and feelings are telling us about ourselves and others. In fact, the more our thoughts and feelings keep obsessing on others' faults, for example, ...
The unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion...
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these. (Gauta...
"But then I recognized, 'I am no longer a victim. It doesn't matter what this man does. My life will not be contingent on what he decides to do.' And suddenly I recognize that I am free." (Robi Dam...
"Forgiveness is making peace with something - or someone - you can not change." (Marina Cantacuzino)
When we are prone to harshly judge and condemn others, we should inquire how far we fall short ourselves; we should also consider those periods of suffering when we ourselves were perhaps misjudged...
Don't focus on what others are doing wrong. Do focus on what you can do right to help. Don't worry whether others are helping you. Do worry whether you are helping others. ("Living the material", L...
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections... It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. (...
Life is a place of service. Joy can be real when people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. (adapted, Leo Tolstoy)
"If I betrayed myself by not seeing the humanity in the other then I would suffer. I believe every time we demonize anyone we lose some of our humanity." (Jo Berry, TEDx talk)
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. (Corrie ten Boom)
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. (Aristotle)
We are members one of another, connected to each other... And just for that reason, we become most ourselves when we are most true to one another. We become most right with ourselves when we are mo...
WOW....What an insightful way to evaluate our thoughts about others. It certainly makes me think twice about any "judgement" I may have of another person.
"Sincerity is being oneself without thinking of oneself. Self-forgetfulness is at the heart of sincerity. That means that if we try to force sincerity, we shall merely produce insincerity and hypoc...