He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.

---

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — Dalai Lama

---

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

---

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ― Karl Marx

---

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. ― Karl Marx

---

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

---

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

---

I am a machine condemned to devour books. ― Karl Marx

---

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

---

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

---