#selves

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

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#effects #good #leaves #love #loved

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #others #ourselves #peace

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#abyss #cross #disastrous #discovery #gain

We do not exist for ourselves. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#ourselves

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#choices #deepest #enable #fulfill #make

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#either #inherent #means #pain #pleasure