I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
Interpretation
Engaging with society reflects a hopeful outlook and a desire for improvement.
George Takei's quote emphasizes the importance of love and optimism in our interactions with people. He suggests that when we actively seek to improve our society and connect with others, we embody a spirit of hopefulness and belief in positive change.
In practice
This quote can be used during a community service meeting to inspire volunteers.
I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When I was a teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my father about our internment. He told me that after we were taken away, they came to our house and took everything. We were literally stripped clean.
I'd like to think that, when I explain it, that Mr. Trump will understand marriage is defined by two people who love each other, commit to each other, and will care for each other through thick and thin.
Back in the day, coming out was something very personal. You began by acknowledging the truth, first to yourself, then to close family and friends. Those of us more in the public spotlight, though, also had to 'come out' to the press.
My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.
I'm especially concerned about the future of this country, because I'm concerned about the gay people of the future. We need to ensure their good life by registering to vote.
In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.
Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
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