„People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway!“

— Matka Tereza

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„People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.“
— Matka Tereza
„People hate as they love, unreasonably.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray
„I’ve seen people who discovered a great meaning in their jobs and they became so absorbed in that that they didn’t have time to become self-centered. They loved their job.“
— Jr.
„Now the consequences, the disruptive effects of such self-centeredness, such egocentric desires, are tragic. And we see these every day. At first, it leads to frustration and disillusionment and unhappiness at many points. For usually when people are self-centered, they are self-centered because they are seeking attention, they want to be admired and this is the way they set out to do it. But in the process, because of their self-centeredness, they are not admired; they are mawkish and people don’t want to be bothered with them. And so the very thing they seek, they never get. And they end up frustrated and unhappy and disillusioned.“
— Jr.
„People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway!“
— Matka Tereza
„Hell needed horribly bright, self-centered people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage“
— Terry Pratchett
„People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too… Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.“
— Ayn Rand
„At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love“
— Jr.
„Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love.“
— Louise L. Hay