Quotes About Tolerance

Express your beliefs with love and consideration

Love the people who treat you right and have compassion for the ones who don't.

Necessary for a contemplative life: a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Loving and respecting others means allowing them to be themselves. When you stop expecting people to be a certain way, you can begin to appreciate THEM.

Love those who don't love you. When hate is directed toward you, repel it with love and use their hatred as motivation to show that tolerance, kindness, and acceptance are better ways to get ahead in this world.

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

When Jesus told us to love one another, He never said we had to like it.

Just as we love ourselves despite the shortcomings we have, so should we love others despite the shortcomings they have.

Love the world, in an ever widening circle of kindness, and keep loving until the day when love conquers all hatred and no one and no thing is excluded from loves tender embrace.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

If I'm not 100% comfortable in her world and she's not 100% comfortable in mine...then we'll make our own world.

People kept on calling. At first Armando told them that Jeff was in the bathroom. Then, when people started telling him that Jeff was in the bathroom a lot, he started telling them that Jeff had Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

Up to a certain point one can get very used to pain

Up to a certain point one can get very used to pain; as I couldn't make my legs better, I got used to the pain.

No conseguía comprender por qué ninguna de las personas con las que hablaba mostraba interés por los valores de Los Auténticos. Me di cuenta entonces de que veían una amenaza en comprender lo desconocido, en aceptar lo que parece diferente.

I tell myself that I tolerate Kimmy because she could never survive me even once talking to her the way she talks to me. I hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.

Do not judge, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged… —Holy Bible, Matthew 7:1

Do not judge, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged

What some of us call lazy some call tired or easy-going, what some of us call stupid some just call a different knowing, so I've come to the conclusion, it will save us all confusion if we don't mix up what we can see with what is our opinion. Because you may, I want to say also; I know that's only my opinion. —Ruth Bebermeyer

Try this: For one week treat every idea that comes your way from another person with complete neutrality. Think of yourself as a human Switzerland. Don't take sides. Don't express an opinion. Don't judge the comment. If you find yourself constitutionally incapable of just saying "Thank you," make it an innocuous, "Thanks, I hadn't considered that." Or, "Thanks. You've given me something to think about.

reasonable people can disagree.

The only time people actually see that you're not listening to them is when you're displaying extreme impatience. You want them to hurry up and get to the point. People notice that. And they rarely think better of you for it. You may as well be shouting, "Next!" at them.

getting mad at people for being who they are makes as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.