Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family. "A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future," he says. "Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, ...
Maybe that was the point of giving after all. He thought he'd given to fill others. He thought giving would allow others to fill him. But he'd had it wrong. Giving laid the holes bare and revealed his insufficiency to fill or be filled. To truly give...
What was behind this smug presumption that what pleased you was bad or at least unimportant in comparison to other things? … Little children were trained not to do “just what they liked’ but … but what? … Of course! What others liked. And w...
We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like the movement of a terrible glacier or the traversing of the desert; and those, on the contrary, whom...
Too often, contemporary continental philosophers take the “other” of philosophy to mean literature, but not religion, which is for them just a little too wholly other, a little beyond their much heralded tolerance of alterity. They retain an anta...
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. A...
Habit is the sixth sense that dominates the other five.
The benefits you get become the debts you owe to others.
One throws up the dust the other gets it in his eye.
Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away.
Seamen learn to get to know each other during a storm.
Bathe other people's children but don't wash behind their ears.
Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.
One camel does not make fun of the other camel's hump.
True happiness lies in giving it to others.
Between two cowards, the first to detect the other has the advantage.
He who is dependant on others must make friends with the dog.
If one hand were the other they would both want to be clean.
Eat whatever you like, but dress as others do.
That which is mine makes other people's things seem strange.
Compare your griefs with those of other men and they will seem less.
