#others

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from. ↗

— John Fowles

#distance #othello #outgrowing-others #personal-growth #reference-to-shakespeare

Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.” --The Tao Te Ching ↗

— The Tao Te Ching

#intelligence

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#mothers #life

I got almost eighteen years with you. The best eighteen years of my life. ↗

— Kristen Simmons

#mothers-love #life

Never look down on a person unless you are helping him up. ↗

— POB Bismark

#pity #respect #respect

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#am #brothers #dj #flash #founders

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#family #siblings #family

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. ↗

— Mark Twain

#how #noble #nobler #others #show

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#duchamp #familiar #figures #house #household

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#him #only #others #politician #says