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Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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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
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
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Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
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
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
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
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
The source of most worry is a lack of acceptance
of the uncertainties of the future.
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
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Errors of opinion may be tolerated
where reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
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I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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