"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

Edwards, Flora | Giving | 2 bookmarks

"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being."

Walesa, Lech | Change | 1 bookmarks

"One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Intelligence and Intellectuals | 3 bookmarks

"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

Freud, Sigmund | Humankind | 1 bookmarks

"One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories."

Falls, Rebecca | Listening | 4 bookmarks

"Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life."

Traver, Amos | Death and Dying | 3 bookmarks

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

Barth, John | Heroes and Heroism | 2 bookmarks

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Guin, Ursula K. Le | Books - Reading | 2 bookmarks

"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

Barrie, Sir James M. | Life and Living | 7 bookmarks

"Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him."

Brooks, Mel | Writers and Writing | 4 bookmarks