[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.
Alain de BottonTags: others oneness ourselves human-beings viewpoints
Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: happiness opinions self-worth other-people ourselves
It is important to consider others at least as important as ourselves. This is the essence of spirituality.
Dalai Lama XIVTags: spirituality importance others ourselves
We can't know if we laugh at ourselves for being silly or to forget that we're not and that we are still here only by a sufferance that can be no more predicted than appeased. Like most things, probably a little of both.
Brian McGreevyTags: forget laugh ourselves silly predicted appeased sufferance
Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.
Aaron B. PowellTags: belief trust believe advantage take ourselves con allow conned taken-advantage-of
We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.
Layne StaleyTags: writing write ourselves alice-in-chains layne-staley
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