#other

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#internal #internal peace #know #only #others

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#misunderstand #other #out #people #spin

I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#actor #battles #being #else #gay

If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#be happy #each #everyone #get #happy

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#cynically #disaster #example #favor #for example

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #attentive #back #best #does

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#attacks #embody #fort #hood #human

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#afforded #brutally #day #does #ever

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body. ↗

— George H. Mead

#characteristic #distinguishes #itself #object #objects

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct. ↗

— George H. Mead

#becomes #character #conduct #gives #group