Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down.
Interpretation
Treat others with kindness, as you may cross their paths again in the future.
This quote emphasizes the importance of kindness and humility in our interactions with others. It reminds us that the relationships we build while we are successful or 'on the way up' can influence our experiences later in life when we may not be at the top; those we treat with kindness may be the ones who support us in times of need.
In practice
During a motivational speech about the importance of treating others well.
At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.
Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.
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