The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.