As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
William ShakespeareRead
Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
Interpretation
Collaboration and unity are essential for progress.
This quote emphasizes the importance of working together in harmony rather than competing or acting individually. By advocating for a shared journey, it suggests that true progress is achieved when people support each other and move forward together, embodying teamwork and mutual respect.
In practice
In a team meeting discussing project collaboration.
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.
We have to defend the migrant workers and give them our support and demand that they have the rights that workers here have from day one, but absolutely hate the system that forces people to leave their country, leave their homes, leave their families, to go somewhere else to be exploited.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
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