Don’t pay the ferryman before he gets you to the other side.
Others Quotes
From every path you walk upon a piece of dust will cling to your clothes. Likewise, from every person that crosses your path a piece will cling to your soul.
If anyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.
Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know that other being also suffer; seeing without feeling is not knowledge.
There is a seeking out of the best in others, of that which is most ultimate in them, and exposing oneself to it, to learn from it and be made over by it, which brings friendship very close to the mood of prayer.
I look at what I have and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
