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#worthiness

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People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for payback ranging from leaving a tip in a restaurant they will never visit again to throwing themselves on a live grenade to save their brothers in arms. [Robert] Trivers together with the economists Robert Frank and Jack Hirshleifer has pointed out that pure magnanimity can evolve in an environment of people seeking to discriminate fair weather friends from loyal allies. Signs of heartfelt loyalty and generosity serve as guarantors of one s promises reducing a partner s worry that you will default on them. The best way to convince a skeptic that you are trustworthy and generous is to be trustworthy and generous.


Steven Pinker


#generosity #loyalty #trustworthiness #nature

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.


Criss Jami


#happiness #happy #inconsiderate #peace #problem

Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic and REAL, it doesn’t need gloss or polish or glitter to shine.


Mandy Hale


#authenticity #beauty #being-fabulous #being-yourself #fabulous

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me?


Charlotte Brontë


#courtship #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

Consider everyone trustworthy until they prove otherwise.


Ram Mohan


#distrust #emotion #faith #feeling #honesty






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