Quotes About Respect

This kind of holy envy comes with its own safeguard. Although I am allowed to admire what is growing in the well-tended fields of my religious neighbors, I am not allowed to pull off the road and help myself. The things I envy have their own terroir, their own long histories of weather and fertilization. They do not exist to serve me, improve me, or profit me.

Although I am allowed to admire what is growing in the well-tended fields of my religious neighbors, I am not allowed to pull off the road and help myself. The things I envy have their own terroir , their own long histories of weather and fertilization. They do not exist to serve me, improve me, or profit me. They have their own dominion.

The problem was that I could not teach other people's religions without loving them as I loved my own, or at least giving it my best shot.

When students first encounter the reality of multiple religious worldviews, they often race to the lowest common denominator: your truth is true for you and mine is true for me. This is their peace offering, their way of living with religious difference without fighting, but it also prevents them from exploring the differences in any meaningful way. Holy envy gives those students another way forward, especially those who are inclined toward religious absolutes.

It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.

I think you must have forgotten, Anita," the Duke said, "that I told you never to come to a conservatory alone with a man unless you wanted him to make love to you." "I-I never - thought - " "That it applied to me?" the Duke finished. "Well, it does!

I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting…. I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.

Always, there must be free will. It is not for us to impose our beliefs on others or to endeavor to persuade one to the practices of our faith. We do not seek those who need our help. Rather, they must seek us and request our assistance. —Esmée Roussel, the Dress Witch" Davis, Barbara. The Keeper of Happy Endings

Please . . . don't do this. Don't try to get in my head and figure me out. I promise you, it isn't worth it.

Okay, Mattie. I said okay." All of a sudden, she threw her arms around me and squeezed. "We won't talk about it if you don't want to.

Loving herself—respecting her own needs—was something important and new.

Entitled? That's a dangerous word, Greg. Be careful how you use it. People aren't entitled to things. They have to earn them. That goes for money and respect and love.

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

Creating a "cared for" environment is a way of showing yourself respect and reinforcing it daily.

Don't judge your creation. Accept it with gratitude. What we express is a valuable part of ourselves and worthy of our respect.

Que quiere una mujer? Ella quieres ser respetada, que la escuches la entiendas, quiere flores, quiere reírse, quiere confiar en ti, no quiere leerte la mente, quiere ser valorada por quien es y en ocasiones ella solo quiere que te calles y dejes de arreglarlo todo. Joan of Arcadia

But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything—that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it—and its choice to be there—are gone.

I mull that over. Amber treats everyone out here like normal people, not homeless street losers, and in return they give her their names.

One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Aspiring female leaders risk being liked but not respected, or respected but not liked, in settings that may require individuals to be both in order to succeed.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

I hope every woman in this country, whether they agree with Roe or they disagree with Roe, whether they themselves would make one decision or another, will come together and say: Pro-choice means that the Government respects the individual, and isn't that really what our country is all about?