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Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle.
15 years ago
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"Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle."
-Plato
This, I feel, is truly the best way to live and I try to live with this in mind always.
I did some digging on the original quote and it's not actually a quote from Plato but evolved from something John Watson wrote in 1907.
"This man beside us also has a hard fight with an unfavouring world, with strong temptations, with doubts and fears, with wounds of the past which have skinned over, but which smart when they are touched. It is a fact, however surprising. And when this occurs to us we are moved to deal kindly with him, to bid him be of good cheer, to let him understand that we are also fighting a battle; we are bound not to irritate him, nor press hardly upon him nor help his lower self."
-John Watson
-Plato
This, I feel, is truly the best way to live and I try to live with this in mind always.
I did some digging on the original quote and it's not actually a quote from Plato but evolved from something John Watson wrote in 1907.
"This man beside us also has a hard fight with an unfavouring world, with strong temptations, with doubts and fears, with wounds of the past which have skinned over, but which smart when they are touched. It is a fact, however surprising. And when this occurs to us we are moved to deal kindly with him, to bid him be of good cheer, to let him understand that we are also fighting a battle; we are bound not to irritate him, nor press hardly upon him nor help his lower self."
-John Watson
"What...what were Lisa's last words?"
"She said do not hate humans.
If you can not live with them, then at least do them no harm.
For theirs is already a hard lot."
But either way, very true words...
...I've played that game way too much, I've memorized just about every conversation. ^_^;;
Cookie for those who get who said it, biscuit for those who can quote back!
Why is there no "Like" button? D:<
"No one truely Dies a Virgin.. for life screws us all"
but i will say everyone of us really are fighting a hard battle in one way or another.