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People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.
Sep 17, 2025
Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.
Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The time is always right to do what is right.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Beautiful people do not just happen
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty. Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams. Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to dwell on other people's actions, Westacott is for you. His linked studies of everyday vices offer elegant analysis of the goods that lurk in behavior that is usually condemned. This wise book is practical philosophy in the best sense.
actions speak louder than words
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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