Respecting Individuality Quotes

It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.

Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.

What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.

Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.

Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.

I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I've done.

Love is acceptance - accepting people as they are. Just acceptance and caring.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

I aim to have meaningful, honest interactions with people and be open to their uniqueness.