Quotes About Tolerance

Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

Accepting others' life choices is something most people only learn with age.

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

His saying was: live and let live.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.

The more a person can look beyond gender orientation, the happier and more fulfilling life is likely to be.

Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!

You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them!

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.

There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.

We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.