Robert A. Heinlein  - Quotes

 My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself. 

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Henry James  - Quotes

 True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand. 

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Erol Ozan  - Quotes

 Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy. 

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Rebecca Solnit  - Quotes

 The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved. 

Tags: altruism   disaster   hope     
Vikram Seth  - Quotes

 And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.'



Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it.
 

Tags: altruism   communism   poverty     


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