#others

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#affairs #especially #everything #inactivity #others

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#fortune #good #good fortune #kinds #misfortunes

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#achievements #asking #envisaged #had #him

Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#day #every #every day #factory #families

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#compassion #discipline #example #father #honesty

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#acute #bit #come #depression #every

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#i #lacked #myself #others #strength

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves. ↗

— Jon Brion

#being #fluid #good #just #more

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#because #bothers #century #end #how

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#criticize #improving #keep #life #little