If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire for one's work to positively impact others' happiness and welfare.
George Westinghouse's quote emphasizes the importance of contributing to the well-being of others through oneβs work. The speaker finds fulfillment in the thought that their efforts are not just for personal gain but have also improved the lives of their fellow human beings, highlighting a profound sense of purpose and social responsibility.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a motivational speech about the importance of community service.
We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even time to listen and dialogue... Let us not be afraid to be silent outside and inside ourselves, so that we are able not only to perceive God's voice, but also the voice of the person next to us, the voices of others.
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.
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