Quotes About Tolerance

As most people get older, they become more tolerant and accepting. But you do not see this. You are frozen in childhood, unaware that the world has changed around you. You ascribe the mentality of a child to the adults around you. So you avoid situations where you might get exactly the positive feedback that you need. You never find out that you might actually be accepted.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.

To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

Some people need a picture. Any great religion has to be inclusive. And to be inclusive you have to accommodate different levels of sophistication.

Using both experiments and field data, a recent study found that economic insecurity was associated with increased consumption of painkillers and produced actual physical pain and reduced pain tolerance, with the absence of control providing one mechanism explaining these results.

My concern is that one can only be outraged for so long before becoming numb. Hate is not an effective long-term solution.

Imagine what our world would be like if everyone loved themselves so much that they weren't threatened by other people's opinions or skin colors or sexual preferences or talents or education or possessions or lack of possessions or religious beliefs or customs or their general tendency to just be whoever the hell they are.

It was that Michelle had the rare gift of taking people as they came.

Never Judge Another Person's Journey!

She just wants you to be able to be whoever you want to be, and love whoever you want to love.

You have to let people be who they want," Terry said. "Even if it's not what you want them to be.

Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint.

We have in America," he said, "twenty million people of German descent. Almost as many Irish. In New York State alone there are more Italians than in Rome. We have more Scandinavians than there are in Sweden. Here, side by side, dwell Czechs, Roumanians, Slavs, Poles and Dutchmen. We also have some Jews. We have solved the problem of living together without wanting to cut one another's throats. You will have to learn to do the same in Europe. We shall have to teach you.

Adulthood is the ability to be totally bored and remain standing.

Don't hate him either. You shouldn't hate anybody ... If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people ... A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it's hungry. ... You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It's never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart ... and all you'll have left is a hateful heart.

But the only thing I can think of is Time and patience.

They had watched him make a masterwork of scapegoating Jews for Germany's fall from power and persuade his followers that enlightenment, humanity, and tolerance were weaknesses—"Jewish" ideas that led to defeat.

He learned not to mind the silences.

They tolerate my mistakes. They correct me, they encourage me, they provide the words I lack. They speak clearly, patiently. Just like parents with their children. The

Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.

We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.

My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.