Quotes About Tolerance

whatever peace came from tolerating evil was short-lived. The devil always came to claim his own.

much discomfort was based on human expectations. As a man, I expected to be warm and dry when I chose to be. Animals did not harbor any such beliefs. So it was raining. That part of me that was wolf could accept that. Rain meant being cold and wet. Once I acknowledged that and stopped comparing it to what I wished it to be, the conditions were far more tolerable.

Seldom can one hate a person if one understand that person.

Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all." And

The ones who chose to live free of inconvenience by tolerating the agony and degradation of others?

I do not disparage any man's life. Consider my own, and tell me what height I look down from.

Her anger was hard for me to bear, but weeping would have been worse." p. 513

change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die.

Some things cannot be solved," he pointed out philosophically. "Drink makes those things much more tolerable.

But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

coping with uncertainty makes us more creative, more resilient, and leads to genuine intellectual progress. It also makes us more tolerant, and this is the key to understanding what effect agnosticism should have on religious education.

Hate generalises, love specifies

True acceptance of an individual as he is, without trying to change him through encouragement or manipulation or coercion, is a very high form of love, and very difficult for most of us to practice.

Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. That's why I always give people the benefit of the doubt; it's one of my rules to live by.

But, Marcie had reminded herself, I don't know the weight of anyone else's burdens—only my own. She didn't judge. She didn't feel smart or strong enough to judge.

What we wish other people would do has nothing to do with us. That's not moral fiber, that's being judgmental and unforgiving." "I've never been judgmental or unforgiving a day in my life," Maureen protested. "Know

The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more painful.

Life isn't about love and heaven forbid marriage be. It's about getting along.

She's only human. Don't judge her. Just love her.

tardiness was allowable only in babies born past their due date.

Now, Megan, we can't pick on whoever abstained.