Quotes about Differences

You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.

When you don't want to change, you look for differences in others. When you are willing to change, you look for similarities.

Each of us is an individual. Each of us is different. There must be respect for those differences… We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of forbearance, with tolerance one for another regardless of the doctrines and philosophies which we may espouse. Concerning these you and I may disagree. But we can do so with respect and civility.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

I said before, that I have learnt much by guiding others. In the first place I see that all souls have more or less the same battles to fight, and on the other hand, that one soul differs widely from another, so each must be dealt with differently.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.