Emil Cioran Quotes

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Love each other or die.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation.

When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

Finding common ground means reaching out with respect and aloha - despite the issues that divide us, despite the hurt, despite the fear - and recognize what unites us as human beings.

We demonize our enemies at our own peril.

It doesn't matter if you're a Victoria's Secret model or you're someone's 90-year-old grandma or you're a little kid who's getting bullied or you're that kid's bully - everybody feels like there's something going on that's more correct than what is. We all have to reach out to one another in that fear, and we'd be surprised to hear, 'Me, too.'

I don't hate anyone. I just see the evil some pretend doesn't exist.

I thank God I don't have a problem with any person. Nobody wants to have a problem with another person. I don't want it either.

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.