#altruism

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#brian-tracy #evolution #evolve #giving #growing

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#education #potential #religion #education

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#love #patience #love

If we persist in defining ourselves as doomed, human nature as beyond redemption, and social institutions as beyond reform, then we shall create a future that will inexorably proceed in confirming this view. Rescuers refused to see Jews as guilty or beyond hope and themselves as helpless, despite all the evidence that could be marshaled to the contrary. They made a choice that affirmed the value and meaningfulness of each life in the midst of a diabolical social order that repeatedly denied it. Can we do otherwise? ↗

— Samuel P. Oliner

#hope #nature

Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetizes. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#decay #religion #religion