William Glasser Quotes

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

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.

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.

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.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

If you come from a place of love, and you're not saying, 'I'm better than you,' that's one thing that allows you to talk about different ethnicities. It's almost like laughing with each other.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

It makes no difference to my family where one comes from as long as we make each other happy. They are pretty cool like that.

I have learnt to respect others opinion more.

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside.

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.

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.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

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

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

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

What's important to me is people just being people.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.