Viggo Mortensen Quotes

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

I think 'understanding' and 'acceptance' are the most important words.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

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

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I hope that people will get to know me and give me the opportunity to get to know them and just respect what I'm doing because I respect how they feel and their thoughts as well.

You don't build walls; you build bridges between people.

Everyone should just be kind to one another.

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

The true gospel of Jesus Christ never led to bigotry. It never led to self-righteousn ess. It never led to arrogance. The true gospel of Jesus Christ leads to brotherhood, to friendship, to appreciation of others, to respect and kindness and love

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

To be social is to be forgiving.