Louise J. Kaplan Quote

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

Why do women waste their time trying to convince their insecure family members and girlfriends that they are beautiful? Self esteem is not a beauty cream that you can rub all over them and see instant...

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to sta...

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eye...

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the 's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it wa...