Mark Victor Hansen Quotes

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.

You want to be with someone who you are constantly learning from, but you also feel like you give back to.

It takes collaboration across a community to develop better skills for better lives.

I'm not one of those one-man-gang type of players. I'm a guy who has to rely on his teammates, to play within the team structure.

We are an industry, and we are all in this together and can't survive without each other. I feel it is high time we realise that. If we go against each other, or if we get happiness from other people's fall, then there is no way we will move ahead.

True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

Be blessed. And just as you are transforming your own life, may you transform the lives of those around you. When they ask, do not forget to give. When they knock at your door, be sure to open it. When they lose something and come to you, do whatever you can to help them find what they have lost. First, though, ask; knock at the door and find what is missing in your life. A hunter always knows what to expect - eat or be eaten.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

From what I've been able to figure out, all of us are here together and we need one another. We must celebrate each other's differences. Learning to ask for help is as important as learning the value of helping other people. I believe all the people in my life have been there for a reason, and I hope I have been in theirs for a reason as well. It's taken me a while, but I feel truly blessed. After all is said and done, I love life, I love people, and I love being me.

A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.

I've come to this belief that, if you show me a woman who can sit with a man in real vulnerability, in deep fear, and be with him in it, I will show you a woman who, A, has done her work and, B, does not derive her power from that man. And if you show me a man who can sit with a woman in deep struggle and vulnerability and not try to fix it, but just hear her and be with her and hold space for it, I'll show you a guy who's done his work and a man who doesn't derive his power from controlling and fixing everything.

True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.

Our courage comes from the courage of others.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.