Tolerance

Tolerance means accepting and valuing differences between people, appreciating that these differences enrich us. It recognizes that each of us has a limited perspective on the world and that together our tapestry of insights and virtues is greater than those of any one person or tribe or culture alone. Tolerance acknowledges the vastness of Reality and cherishes the many human faces of that Reality. When we are tolerant we watch and listen and seek to discover how the many pieces fit together to make a wonderful whole. We are able to delight in the otherness of strangers and our intimate companions, knowing that our own lives would be less rich if everyone were more like us.
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Acceptance - Tolerance
When you see a straight piece of wood, you do not want to make it into a wheel.
  • Author: Xi Kang - Han Dynasty - China
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 192
Published by Barnes & Noble Books
Published in New York
Published in 2003
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Tolerance - Openness
Shade and light are different in every valley.
  • Author: Li Bo - Tang Dynasty
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 165
Published by Barnes & Noble Books
Published in New York
Published in 2003
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Tolerance
Fish live in water.  Men die in it.
Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
  • Author: Zhuang Zi - Warring States Period - China
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Cooperation - Tolerance - Openness
Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.
  • Author: Alan, Robert
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Tolerance - Openness
It's a mistake to surround yourself
only with people just like you.
Throw off that worn comforter --
and replace it with a crazy quilt of
different and imaginative people.
Then watch the ideas erupt!
  • Author: Bender, Betty
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Acceptance - Adaptability - Love - Responsibility - Tolerance
I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life—the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.
  • Author: Minuchin Salvador
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Tolerance
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
  • Author: Mead, Margaret
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Mindfulness - Tolerance - Openness
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
  • Author: DePree, Max
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Love - Tolerance - Universal Ethics
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
  • Author: Casals, Pablo
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Compassion - Generosity - Service - Tolerance
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
  • Author: Buddha
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Unity - Tolerance
Religions are different roads converging on the same point.  What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal?
  • Author: Gandhi, M.K
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Truth-seeking - Tolerance
Truth is one; sages call it by various names.
  • Author: Rig Veda
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Love - Tolerance
God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary.  No higher view is known than that of love.
  • Author: Swami Vivekananda
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He can be approached.
  • Author: Ramakrishna
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Friendliness - Love - Respect - Tolerance - Forgiveness
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
  • Author: Balfour, Arthur James
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Peacefulness - Tolerance
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
  • Author: Kennedy, John F.
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Tolerance
Travel teaches tolerance.
  • Author: Disraeli, Benjamin
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Humor - Insight - Tolerance
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
  • Author: Repplier , Agnes
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