
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.Rumi
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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.Rumi

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.Confucius

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu

Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.Miyamoto Musashi

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.François de La Rochefoucauld

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.Wole Soyinka

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.Muhammad Ali

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.Frederick Douglass

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.José Martí

They alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.Swami Vivekananda

Give others confidence, give others joy, give others hope, give others convenience.Hsing Yun

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.Dalai Lama

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.Cicero

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.Thich Nhat Hanh

All the happiness in this world arises from wishing others to be happy; all the suffering arises from wishing oneself to be happy.Shantideva

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Francis Bacon
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.Gautama Buddha
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others.Wayne Dyer
We choose our destiny in the way we treat others.Wit
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.Gautama Buddha
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.Voltaire
The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.Leonardo Ruiz
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.Lao Tzu
By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.John Quincy Adams
Genuine love should first be directed at oneself – if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?Dalai Lama
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.Alfred Sheinwold
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.Jacob Braude
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.Gautama Buddha
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.Jessamyn West
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.William Ward
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.Michael Jordan
I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.Confucius
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.Joan Didion
Courage is not about taking risks unknowingly but putting your own being in front of challenges that others may not be able to.Byron Pulsifer
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.Amelia Earhart
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.David Brinkley
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.Leo Buscaglia
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves.Carl Jung
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.Dhammapada
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.Tony Robbins
If you have no respect for your own values how can you be worthy of respect from others.Byron Pulsifer
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.Michel de Montaigne
If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.Anne Lindbergh
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.Lao Tzu
Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others.Gautama Buddha
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.Plato
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.Mark Twain
It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others.Dalai Lama
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.Lao Tzu
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.Robert Schuller
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.Douglas Adams
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.Harriet Lerner
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.Anthony Robbins
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.Tenzin Gyatso
Be gentle first with yourself if you wish to be gentle with others.Lama Yeshe
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.Eleanor Roosevelt
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.William Hazlitt
By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.Jane Roberts
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical.Expect more than others think is possible.Cadet Maxim
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgement.Ralph Marston
Bold is not the act of foolishness but the attribute and inner strength to act when others will not so as to move forward not backward.Byron Pulsifer
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.Lao Tzu
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?Rabbi Hillel
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.Margaret Fuller
He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.Confucius
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.Carl Jung
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.Thomas Kempis
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.William Ward
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.Harold Nicolson
Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Each person must live their life as a model for others.Rosa Parks
Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.Warren Buffett
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.Audrey Hepburn

Give your love to all, trust in the team to which you are joined, and do not do wrong to others for your own self-gratification.Byron Pulsifer

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.Dalai Lama

Wednesday is a day to help others celebrate life. You and only you are accountable for what you extend and give to others.Byron Pulsifer

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.Dalai Lama

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.Abraham Lincoln

Real living is living for others.Bruce Lee

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.Stephen King

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.Napoleon Hill

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.Napoleon Hill

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.Marcus Aurelius

They alone live who live for others.Swami Vivekananda

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.Blaise Pascal

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.Nelson Mandela

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.Albert Schweitzer