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May these quotes about Tolerance inspire and motivate you.
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Long ago men fought and died for their faith;
but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -
the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren
and their rights of conscience.
- Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind;
it requires the same effort of the brain
that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
- Helen Keller
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got
a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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