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A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Honor diversity in all seasons.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono
The Divine is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller
You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
- Doug Floyd
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God enters by a private door into each individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Long ago men fought and died for their faith;
but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -
the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren
and their rights of conscience.
- Helen Keller
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
I Honor Diversity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside.
The bravest man is who can see the world
without the barrier of the mind, just as it is.
It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful.
There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -
there are no distinctions.
- Osho
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
God sometimes does try to the uttermost
those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
There is always the danger that we may
just do the work for the sake of the work.
This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in -
that we do it to God, to Christ,
and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
- Mother Teresa
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We try to realize the essential unity of the world
with the conscious soul of man;
we learn to perceive the unity held together
by the one Eternal Spirit,
whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars,
and at the same time irradiates our mind.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I know how hard it is in these times to have faith.
But maybe if you could have the faith to start with,
maybe the times would change.
You could change them. Think about it. Try.
And try not to hurt each other.
- the movie Oh, God!
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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