Dagen McDowell Quotes

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

To put up with me, you have to be patient.

We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

Tolerance is something you don't like, but put up with.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

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

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.