Quotes About Tolerance

never assume that you know what's best for anyone.

In today's overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness.

Rather than having judgmental thoughts about those whom you regard as separate or different, view others as an extension of yourself.

The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Permit the paradox of wanting the irritant to vanish and allowing it to be what it is. Look inward for it in your thoughts and allow yourself to feel it wherever it is and however it moves in your body.

When you have the choice to be right, or kind, choose kind.

Stop waiting for others to change. Ask yourself why others should be different simply because you would like it better if they were. Recognize that every person has a right to be whatever they choose, even if you irritate yourself about it.

listen more, allow your viewpoints to be challenged, and bend when necessary

Don't judge yourself or others.

When you have a choice to be right or to be kind, always pick kind.

treat everyone, without exception, with goodness and kindness, as all of those whom we revere as spiritual masters taught us by their example.

Love is a word that has as many definitions as there are people to define it. Try this one on for size. The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. This may be a workable definition, but the fact remains that so few are able to adopt it for themselves.

allow rather than interfere.

make a special effort to have acceptance, gentleness, and kindness course through you to others.

The immediate result of your infinite patience is peace

Be humble. Never put yourself above others or see yourself as superior to anyone.

Either people like running or they don't. Either people get it or they don't. And if they don't, they just think people who like it are crazy. Which is okay. That makes us even.

What can't be helped must be endured.

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)

The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.

Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.

It's easier to accept lies by invoking a misguided alibi of tolerance and mutual respect than to live outside the cone of public approval. This is clear in every recent national debate over abortion, marriage, family, sexuality, and rights in general. Many of us are happy to live with half-truths and ambiguity rather than risk being cut out of the herd. The culture of lies thrives on our own complicity, lack of courage, and self-deception. The

As Chesterton once put it unkindly, 'Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe anything.

An important part of successful recovery is learning to accurately name what happened for us and the components of our inner life as they come up for us, including our various feelings, and learning to tolerate emotional pain without trying to medicate it away.