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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
- Doug Floyd
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God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside.
The bravest man is who can see the world
without the barrier of the mind, just as it is.
It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful.
There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -
there are no distinctions.
- Osho
Great relationships begin with two people who are each
self confident and who come to each other with the openness
to see and accept the other as a unique and wonderful person.
If there is true love and an alignment of fundamental values,
choose to join your life with your new partner
and vow never to criticize their nature -
the essence that makes them uniquely themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Dumbo! C'mon, fly! Open them ears!
The magic feather was just a gag!
You can fly! Honest, you can!
- Timothy Q. Mouse in the movie Dumbo
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hero needed - apply now -
open minded independent thinker -
courage preferred.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Sometimes it happens that a man's circle
of horizon becomes smaller and smaller,
and as the radius approaches zero
it concentrates on one point.
And then that becomes his point of view.
- David Hilbert
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
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
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
If physical death is the price
that I must pay to free my brothers and sisters
from a permanent death of the spirit,
then nothing can be more redemptive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
If we cannot now end our differences,
at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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