It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zora Neale HurstonRead
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Doing good for others often comes with challenges and sacrifices.
This quote highlights the complex nature of altruism, suggesting that the joy derived from helping others is often accompanied by difficulties such as being taken for granted or misunderstood. Hurston implies that the positive feelings associated with altruistic actions do not come easily; they require endurance and the acceptance of possible emotional hardships.
Themes
AltruismSacrificeServiceUnderstandingEmpathy
In practice
Example use cases
Use this quote in a speech about the importance of community service.
More from Zora Neale Hurston
All quotes βLack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
Zora Neale HurstonRead
From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloomβ¦It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.
Zora Neale HurstonRead
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
Zora Neale HurstonRead
Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
Zora Neale HurstonRead
Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.
Zora Neale HurstonRead
Similar quotes
If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
Patrick RothfussRead
life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.
Thomas JeffersonRead
Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.
Douglas AdamsRead
God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
Martin LutherRead
Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.
Morihei UeshibaRead
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
Terry PratchettRead