Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

Reject hatred without hating.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

The person I love most is the Dalai Lama. China destroyed his country, yet he says that it's imperative we show love for the Chinese.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.