We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Human Relations

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.

~ Ken Keyes

Ken Keyes Human Relations

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

~ Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer Human Relations

I was born modest not all over but in spots.

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Human Relations

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.

~ Edgar Watson Howe

Edgar Watson Howe Human Relations

When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

~ Arthur Bryant

Arthur Bryant Human Relations

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.

~ Goethe

Goethe Human Relations

See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.

~ Pope John Xxiii

Pope John Xxiii Human Relations

The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Human Relations

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.

~ Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Human Relations

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

~ Robert Frost

Robert Frost Human Relations

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.

~ Edward Noyes Westcott

Edward Noyes Westcott Human Relations

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Human Relations

Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

~ Helen Keller

Helen Keller Human Relations

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

~ Japanese Proverb

Japanese Proverb Human Relations

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

~ Havelock Ellis

Havelock Ellis Human Relations

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable but that I was not very lovable myself.

~ George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Human Relations

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.

~ John Andrew Holmes

John Andrew Holmes Human Relations

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

~ Abraham J. Heschel

Abraham J. Heschel Human Relations