There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
Interpretation
Our connections with others shape our lives, and what we give to others returns to us.
This quote highlights the interconnectedness of humanity, emphasizing that we are all part of a larger community. It suggests that our actions toward others, whether positive or negative, create a ripple effect that inevitably impacts our own lives. The idea of 'destiny' implies that these relationships are part of a greater purpose, reinforcing the notion that we are never truly alone in our journeys.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one could say, 'As Edwin Markham observed, there is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone.'
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
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