"To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves."

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Source : Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

Lewis Carroll

#Helping Others Quotes #Giving Quotes #Goal Quotes

“What I love about my husband is that he really allows me to be the best person I can.”
“Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars”
“This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.”

Source : Benjamin Zephaniah (2011). “Refugee Boy”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing
“We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism ... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race.”
“Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.”
“I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.”
“I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.”

Source : "Ted Naifeh Brings COURTNEY CRUMRIN To Color, Ongoing Book". Interview with Lan Pitts, www.newsarama.com. January 18, 2012.
“You said, 'Theyâ€™re harmless dreamers and theyâ€™re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”

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