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.
And that really captures the difference for the bullied straight kid versus the bullied gay kid, is that the bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. [...] And I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.
I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.
They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.
If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered. But your words tell the rest.
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