"People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances."

-- Kavita Ramdas

#Helping Others Quotes #Compassion Quotes #People Quotes

“No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.”
“Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.”
“We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person. Â Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want”
“For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.”

Source : Barbara Neely (2015). “Blanche Among the Talented Tenth: A Blanche White Mystery”, p.12, Brash Books, LLC
“Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.”
“We always need to create and re-create but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.
“When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: "There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time."”
“Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.”

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