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Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good,
is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.
—
William Cowper
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 4/14/08
We
all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand
that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
—
Maya Angelou
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 4/7/08 The
love of one's country is a natural thing. But why should love stop at the border?
—
Pablo Casals
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 12/17/07 Human
beings seldom step outside of themselves to really grasp the needs and fears of
others. We often project our own thoughts and beliefs upon strangers, and make
judgments based upon how we think they 'should' be living their lives. If only
we could experience a few moments inside the feelings of another person, the world
would be a much more compassionate and benevolent place.
—
Harry Thomas, Editor
of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 12/25/06 Hate
is like a cancer. It doesn't matter if you have a little cancer or a lot of cancer
— it's still cancer!
—
Author Unknown
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 6/5/06 What
I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be
learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we
play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation,
as a planet.
—
Oprah Winifrey
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 5/1/06 My
country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
—
Thomas Paine
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 12/26/05 Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
—
Margaret Mead
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 12/19/05 Being
unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much
greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
—
Mother Teresa
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 9/26/05
Treat
people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what
they are capable of being.
—
Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 4/11/05 The
questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and
become one's key to the experience of others.
—
James Baldwin
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line3/14/05
Share
our similarities, celebrate our differences.
—
M. Scott Peck
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line12/6/04
Success
in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself.
It's what you do for others.
—
Danny Thomas, Entertainer/Humanitarian (1914-1991)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line11/29/04
If
you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very
much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough
spare space to hold any real magic.
— Zilpha Keatley
Snyder, American Children's Writer (1927- )
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 3/29/04 If
you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find
yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and
personality that you encounter.
— Eleanor Roosevelt,
Wife of President F. D. Roosevelt, activist, UN diplomat (1884-1962)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 1/5/04 We
will never know the difference that can be made in our life and the lives of strangers
unless we choose to be open to all possibilities.
—
Harry Thomas, Editor
of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 1/5/04 The
unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search
for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.
— Felix
Adler, Ph.D, Ethical Culture Movement (1851-1933)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 12/1//03 To
desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something
which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of humankind
— this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good
haven to sail for.
—
Henry Van Dyke, American Educator & Author (1852–1933)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 11/24//03 Everybody
can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only
need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
—
Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights Leader
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 9/8/03
Clearly
seeing the chances we have to make a difference in the World Within Our Reach
is the best way to change the world at large.
—
Harry Thomas, Editor
of Inspiration Line
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 5/12//03 Ninety
percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities,
their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way
through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
—
Sydney
J. Harris, American Journalist (1917-1986)
Inspirational
Quote from Inspiration Line 3/24//03 Every
man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against
the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for
some external purpose.
— Immanuel Kant
The
highest result of education is tolerance.
— Helen Keller
The
greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths,
and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
— Frederick
II, the Great How
do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance,
the one value that is indispensable in creating community.
—
Barbara Jordan With
our thoughts we make the world.
— Buddha (Siddhartha
Gautama) How
far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with
the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
—
George Washington Carver I
always prefer to believe the best of everybody — it
saves so much time.
— Rudyard Kipling I
have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where
they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
character.
— Martin Luther King, Jr. I
think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical
way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we
were brought up to.
— Alice Walker If
you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other
people to be entirely to your liking?
— Thomas á
Kempis It
takes a disciplined person to listen to convictions which are different from their
own.
— Dorothy Fuldman (A Thousand Friends) Light
came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as
a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
— Zora Neale Hurston Man
is always inclined to be intolerant towards the thing, or person, he hasn't taken
the time adequately to understand.
— Robert R. Brown
Minds
are like parachutes — they only function when
open.
— Sir James Dewar People
are very open-minded about new things — as long
as they're exactly like the old ones.
— Charles F.
Kettering Perhaps
travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh,
eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each
other, we may even become friends.
— Maya Angelou ("Passports
to Understanding") Prejudices,
it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has
never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds
among stones.
— Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre) People
take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not
on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
— H.
Jackson Brown There
is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn
means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have
been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were
composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and
disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.
— Elie Wiesel We
have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one
another.
— Jonathan Swift Until
you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until
you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not
admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the
bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
—
Napoleon Hill What
is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses
and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.
— Voltaire ("Toleration" Philosophical Dictionary)
Perhaps
the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is make
it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves."
—
Bonaro Overstreet Civilizations
should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity
retained.
— W.H. Auden It
is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close
to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the
loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home
for this is where our love for each other must start.
—
Mother Teresa Never
look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
—
Jesse Jackson No
man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part
of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well
as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own
were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore
never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
—
John Donne The
goal of compassion is not to care because someone is like us but to care because
they are themselves.
—
Mary Lou Randour Oppression
involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity
of other human beings.
— Margaret Atwood
Until
he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself
find peace.
— Albert Schweitzer
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
— Mother Teresa All
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