Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
Interpretation
Popularity is superficial, while being liked comes from respect and kindness.
This quote highlights the distinction between being popular and being genuinely liked. Popularity can often be based on superficial qualities or achievements, whereas being liked requires sincere treatment of others with respect and kindness, fostering deeper, more meaningful connections.
In practice
During a team-building workshop, I shared this quote to emphasize the importance of respect in teamwork.
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
If you educate a boy, you educate a person, but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community.β An entire community - now that is really interesting! Then I found the quote changed a little more on the Kingdom of Jordan website by her Royal Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan during her interview with Oprah Winfrey. Queen Rania relates the quote in these words: βAs you educate a woman, you educate the family. If you educate the girls, you educate the future.
I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things.
It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating them and a bridge linking them together.
It isnβt so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.
Typically, we get annoyed when our spouses complain. We get defensive. But, really, when your spouse complains, he or she is giving you wonderful information about what would make him or her feel loved.
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