#esp

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#respect

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#respect

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#fanatics #respect #respect

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#innocence #self-acceptance #respect

Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all. ↗

— Ray Davis

#tolerance #respect

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#already #become #competencies #daily #daily life

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hermann-hesse #love #philosophy #respect #world

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#self-respect #respect

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#disagreement #respect

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#self-respect #respect