altruism

...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people__ way of life...

...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people__ destiny is charted...

Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue.

Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.

a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.

...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man__ world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

In your selflessness pursuit of things higher than yourself, you appear selfish or inconsiderate to those who truly love you and who have cared deeply about you from the first day you came into their lives.

Life is full of intriguing souls that you cannot penetrate_ An uncomfortable percentage of those anguished and impregnable souls also have suffering hearts that are further tormented by a deluded mind. They will hurt out of an impulse, and then live their lives after that without the slightest remorse.

Avoid people who hurt from an impulse. I mean people who have this tendency to relish their capacity to hurt the good souls of this world, and who after hurting, wake up the next day without a trace of despondent brooding, and then move on with life never thinking that they should show some remorse or try to repent.

There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.

In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.

Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can__ directly influence things.