People with different personalities, different approaches, different values succeed not because one set of values or priorities is superior but because their values and practices are genuine.
People with different personalities, different approaches, different values succeed not because one set of values or priorities is superior but because their values and practices are genuine.
She could write the scene three times over, from three points of view...none of these three was bad, nor were they particularly good. She need not judge...She need only show seperate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show that they had equal value. That was the only moral a story need have.
We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Countless deaths have occurred because of observed differences between men. Unfathomable oceans of blood have been spilt because one man saw another to be evil, wrong, different, etc. Yet, it is a commonly accepted fact that no Earthly man is perfect. The world will know peace when we collectively look past the faults of our neighbors, and turn our eyes inward to the personal faults we must overcome.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Being 'weird' is one of the most best complements you could ever give someone. If no one in the world was weird, everything would be normal, and that's boring. Be different. Stand out. Be the sore thumb that got hammered a couple times by a heavy mallet. Be that sole bird that's flying in the exact opposite direction everyone else is and hasn't a clue it's winter.
Being 'weird' is one of the most best complements you could ever give someone. If no one in the world was weird, everything would be normal, and that's boring. Be different. Stand out. Be the sore thumb that got hammered a couple times by a heavy mallet. Be that sole bird that's flying in the exact opposite direction everyone else is and hasn't a clue it's winter.
A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
We shouldn’t let our emotions stand in the way of resolving differences.
"Men differ in their virtues, if any, but they are alike in their vices."
--Gail Wynand, The Fountainhead.
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
