“I have the courage to tell the people I love how much I love them and what I love about them.”
— William DeFoore
“As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.”
— Robert H. Schuller
“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”
— M. Scott Peck
“It is not our differences that divide us.It is our inability to recognize, accept,and celebrate those differences.”
— Audre Lorde
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
— Harper Lee
“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
— Theodor Adorno
“When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person’s uniquely “right” path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals, without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“It ain’t so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.”
— Josh Billings
“No one can tell whether they are richer or poor by turning to their ledger. It is the heart that makes a person rich. One is rich according to what one is, not according to what one has.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
— Edmund Burke
“All the people we call ‘geniuses’ are men and women who somehow escaped having to put that curious, wondering child in themselves to sleep.”
— Barbara Sher
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
— Alvin Toffler
“There is in all visible things – a hidden wholeness.”
— Thomas Merton
“From a hologrammatic viewpoint, …you are one little physical image that reflects all of humanity when projected spiritually upon the cosmic screen.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.”
— Deepak Chopra
“To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflections of the one God. I can’t think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda