Pearl Bailey Quotes

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.

Everything we do affects other people.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

I think people tend to be very myopic and they don't understand how their actions impact others.

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.

There's only person in the world you can't see - yourself. But, God created - or whoever created us, we don't even have to argue that point - created us so perfect because we can actually see ourselves in other people.

There are people whose feelings and well-being are within our influence. We can never escape this fact.

Everything you touch touches you.

Try to remember that every action you take in life will have a consequence and a reaction for other people, and that it's the same on social.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.

It never occurs to me that I'd be intimidating to anybody. Maybe I should consider that.

All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

And so my hope for you, good boy, as you grow taller every day, is that you will learn to take good care of yourself, and you will learn to take good care of others-and, someday, you'll see how those two things are exactly the same.

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove

Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.