#others

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#christian-behavior #compassion #helping-others #love #service

What strange creatures brothers are! ↗

— Jane Austen

#siblings #strange

He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#understanding-others #enlightenment

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. ↗

— C.S. Forester

#argument #drinking #gin #mothers #alcohol

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#mothers #motherhood

What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have. ↗

— German motto

#helping-others #charity

Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare. ↗

— Mike McIntyre

#helping-others #kindness #strangers #charity

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