Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. SayersRead
Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Relying too heavily on others for purpose can lead to harm.
This quote reflects the importance of personal responsibility and the dangers of becoming overly dependent on others for one's sense of identity or purpose. When individuals make others their main focus, they risk losing their own autonomy and becoming harmful to themselves and those around them, as it can lead to toxic relationships and a lack of personal fulfillment.
Themes
ResponsibilityDependencyIdentityRelationshipsAutonomy
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about self-empowerment.
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All quotes βBut suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.
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. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.
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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
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What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
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