Quotes of: Serving-others Keyword

They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

Good becomes perfect, but perfect is an illusion. And illusions are like all spells—temporary and soon broken. And when that happens, feelings change.

Love and Other Foreign Words

Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself; it’s great when lived for others. The true means of happiness is to lose your mind by thinking for others!

Leaders' Watchwords

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Mortals and Others 1: American Essays 1931-35

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

My Family and Other Animals

Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.

My Family and Other Animals

So I went instead and tasted Taki's new white wine. Spiridion! what a wine...like the blood of a dragon and smooth as a fish...

My Family and Other Animals

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

The Mermaid Chair

The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.

Moon Time: The Art of Harmony with Nature and Lunar Cycles

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed

I'm way hot," he muttered. "But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot." Fang

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way.

Star of the Sea

We must be careful with our words – we’re like superheroes and words are like our super powers. Super powers should always be used to help others…

The Spell of Summer

I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.

Sandcastle and Other Stories

And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.

The Stinky Cheese Man: And Other Fairly Stupid Tales

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

The Story of Mary Maclane & Other Writings

Are you what others say and think you are?  Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Tao Te Ching

Society sucks. It should not matter what others think, if we are fine with it. Still we both have to concern ourselves with what others might see and think.

Tormented Discovery

Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience

The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays