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"Give everyone room to mess up so that when they do you won't be disappointed and if they don't you'll be impressed."
"Without demolishing religious schools (madrassahs) and minarets and without abandoning the beliefs and ideas of the medieval age, restriction in thoughts and pains in conscience will not end. Without understanding that unbelief is a kind of religion, and that conservative religious belief a kind of disbelief, and without showing tolerance to opposite ideas, one cannot succeed. Those who look for the truth will accomplish the mission."
"So if you have to live amongst men, you must allow everyone the right to exist in accordance with the character he has, whatever it turns out to be: and all you should strive to do is to make use of this character in such a way as its kind and nature permit, rather than to hope for any alteration in it, or to condemn it off-hand for what it is. This is the true sense of the maxim--Live and let live. That, however, is a task which is difficult in proportion as it is right; and he is a happy man who can once for all avoid having to do with a great many of his fellow creatures."
"Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young."
"Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private."
"The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything."
Explore more quotes by Helen Keller
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness."
"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."
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