Quotes About Respect

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

We should add: it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk; it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love.

We should add: it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk; it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love. Eventually

We should add: it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk; it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt.

In light of all he understands about himself and the course of love, he can see that the kindest thing he can do to someone he truly likes is to get out of the way fast.

It is the capacity to tolerate difference that is the true marker of the right person. Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

Architecture excites our respect to the extent that it surpasses us.

The Prestige of Laundry

We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try to tell them.

Shut up this minute, you silly little creatures...

Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Aloha means to see the 'uhane—the living spirit, immortal soul, whatever you call it—in everyone you meet.

No, in the end what persuaded me was simply Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that he had asked me. My father would have made such a decision on his own and only informed my mother after the fact. That Jae-sun sought my opinion—my consent—meant more to me than I could say. And because of that, I could not gainsay him this job.

to the late Mrs. Tsukamoto I offer my kansha—my gratitude and appreciation—for her work.

Aloha means to see the 'uhane—the living spirit, immortal soul, whatever you call it—in everyone you meet. I've done my best to live up to that.

Any attempt to improve on God's creation will distance you from God's creation

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Give yourself space to be what you are. Give others space to be what they are. Then everything will make itself clear.

Do not confuse humility with humiliation.

Say nothing," Essada suggested. "It makes you more tolerable.

I've found that most people do a lot of talking and they wind up not saying very much. Especially adults when they're talking to children. It's kind of like they enjoy talking at you but not to you. They want you to listen to them all the time, but they don't want to listen to you. I think that's pretty stupid. Just because you're small doesn't mean you don't have some important things to say.

What more valuable possession does a homeless man have than his honor?

older vowels were showing through as he said that it was "awfully good of" his parents to have tolerated him.