As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno
When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.
The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Condemn None
Empathy
Understanding
Signs of a Compassionate Person
Do What You Can
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