Actions Hurting Others Quotes

1. "And now, indeed, everything began to look new, unexpected, full of surprises. I had a book in my hands to while away the time, and it occurred to me that in a way a landscape is not unlike a book--a compilation of pages that overlap without any two ever being the same. People open the book according to their taste and training, their memories and desires: for a geologist the compilation opens at one page, for a boatman at another, and still another for a ship's pilot, a painter and so on. On occasion these pages are ruled with lines that are invisible to some people, while being for others as real, as charged and as volatile as high-voltage cables."
Author: Amitav Ghosh

2. "In a WWII radio talk, Lewis champions the well-established idea that actions lead emotions. Although he is making the point with respect to love, he illustrates with the opposite. The Germans hated the Jews, then acted on that. Because they did, their loathing was intensified by their own actions."
Author: C.S. Lewis

3. "And with the right mentor, don't be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don't know what you don't know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you'll be surprised how much others will help."
Author: Howard Schultz

4. "I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior."
Author: Jacques Derrida

5. "Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?"
Author: John Waters

6. "Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that."
Author: Jon Kabat Zinn

7. "Although I'm weak and full of flaws, I will never stop moving forward. No matter who I am, no one other than myself will create my own existence. No matter what others may think or feel, I will still move forward as myself."
Author: Jun Mochizuki

8. "Some women just make you want to know what makes them tick. Others make you wonder what happens when the ticking stops."
Author: Michael Makai

9. "Greenspan's actions were harmful, but even if he knew that, it would have taken a bit of heroic courage to justify inaction in a democracy where the incentive is to always promise a better outcome than the other guy, regardless of the actual, delayed cost."
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

10. "I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable."
Author: Orson Scott Card

11. "Sometimes, to destroy evil, it takes something equally dark; a selective malevolence that will do what others will not, or cannot do."
Author: Robert G. Moons

12. "Oh sky, without me, do not change, Oh moon, without me, do not shine; Oh earth, without me, do not grow,Oh time, without me, do not go. Others give you the name of Love,And me the sultan of that love. Higher than such illusions, Oh, you cannot go, without me."
Author: Rumi

13. "Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment."
Author: Stephen Richards

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