Vetrimaaran Quotes

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Trying to imagine what it's like to be someone else is never a substitute for actually living that way, for acknowledging the respect that we need to have for each other's experiences.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

I have learnt to respect others opinion more.

Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

I really care about people, and I would need someone to also genuinely value other human beings and want to be connected with people in the world and to know about other cultures. That might not be a high standard for someone else, but for me, it's really important to try and stick to that.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

I have tried to be more relatable, but I won't be relatable to everybody.

I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.