All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Acceptance Diversity
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Errors of opinion may be tolerated
where reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
I did not wish to take a cabin passage,
but rather to go before the mast
and on the deck of the world,
for there I could best see
the moonlight amid the mountains.
I do not wish to go below now.
- Henry David Thoreau
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea,
at the long courses of rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars;
and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St. Augustine
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though they liked it,
and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.
- John Muir
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do,
and the more genuine may be one's appreciation
of fundamental things like home,
and love, and understanding companionship.
- Amelia Earhart
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,
and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things
cannot be acquired by vegetating
in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain
Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that.
But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering
your own best ways to travel with that pain
will lead you to the joy that you long to have.
They are your paths, your ways and while my experience
and the experiences of others may inspire you,
ultimately it will be the choices you discover
and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy
in the midst of your challenges.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers,
but for powers equal to our tasks,
to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door
of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Helen Keller
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
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
"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
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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