Quotes of: Do-unto-others Keyword

The hidden economy [is] fed not by money and greed but by love, pure and simple. You see the best and truly golden opportunities do not arise to benefit oneself, but in order to benefit others.

Life on the Flipside

Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Learn to Expect a Great Deal of Life

The world will be a better place when everyone becomes a leader; when everyone finds what he/she was sent to do and does it like no other man’s business.

Leaders' Watchwords

You do not have to feel truer than others in order to be original. You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Ever since Sincere died, I’ve been meaning to have meaning. Her love was the one thing that made me want to do other things, and without it I’m thingless.

Sleepwalking is restercise

But selfish isn't necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to be able to take care of others.

Sweet Shadows

If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.

On Stories

I like the word ‘evil’. Scramble it a little and you will get ‘vile’ and ‘live’. ‘Good’, on the other hand, is just a command to ‘go do’.

The Tenth Circle

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Traité sur la tolérance, à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

When women agree with me I always do the other thing

Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

Politics and the English Language

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

Pride and Prejudice

You don't make waves unless there's a reason, and it better be good. Because once you do, that's it. You're a trouble make, and they never think of you any other way.

Prep

As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.

Quatrains

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.

Rebel Angels

I love you,” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.

Ricochet

I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capable of.

Thin Places

Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)

Tinker's Plague