#other

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right. ↗

— Chris Ware

#grandmother #had #i #messy #other

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy. ↗

— Chris Ware

#empathy #fortified #gave #grandmother #how

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist. ↗

— Chris Ware

#always #artist #encouraging #mother #wanting

When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all. ↗

— Chris Ware

#any #book #comic #comic book #conquer

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#another #calvin #calvin and hobbes #dead #five

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. ↗

— Alan Watts

#defined #everything #impossible #loving #other

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. ↗

— Alan Watts

#becomes #certain #clings #faith #fanatic

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. ↗

— Alan Watts

#being #discord #harmony #level #your

Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#every #fantastic #good #him #his

That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.' ↗

— J. C. Watts

#black #blacks #cut #down #encouraged