Action Quote by Herman Melville

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

— Herman Melville

“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

— Richard Hooker

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a…

— Lord Chesterfield

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and…

— Holbrook Jackson

“Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich…

— Susan Griffin

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

— Iris Murdoch

“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected…

— C.S. Lewis

“For human nature is such that grief and pain—even simultaneously suffered—do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide, the lesser…

— Primo Levi

“...sometimes changes bring rivers of tears, feelings of helplessness and despair, but paradoxically, it is precisely in the transition that we build our power…

— Micaela Becattini