#elves

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ↗

— Herman Melville

#connect #fellow #fellow men #fibers #live

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves. ↗

— Christine McVie

#much #out #pointed #pretty #somebody

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#did #directed #guilt #others #ourselves

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#comfort zone #control #degree #dreams #living

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#bad #conscience #conviction #deed #deep

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#asking #concentrating #disadvantage #faith #future

What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#believe #century #challenge #challenging #doing

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#called #come #country #foreign #germany

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#american #ancestry #certain #certain degree #common

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#another #destiny #find #life #love