WISDOM: Uniqueness, Suffering, various authors

Tolerance, Uniqueness, Judgements , Suffering and other wise sayngs (various authors)

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each others folly- that is the first law of nature. ~Voltaire

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. ~Franklin Thomas

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. 
~Wayne W. Dyer

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
 ~Henry Ford

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.~Raymond Hull

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
~Maria Robinson

It is never too late to be who you might have been. ~George Eliot

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
~Desiderius Erasmus

“Our suffering stems from ignorance. We react because we do not know what we are doing, because we do not know the reality of ourselves. The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now. Yet surely this moment, now, is the most important for us. We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present. If we are unaware of our present actions, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past and can never succeed in attaining our dreams for the future. But if we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.”  - S.N. Goenka

When Buddha spoke about suffering, he wasn't referring simply to superficial problems like illness and injury, but to the fact that the dissatisfied nature of the mind itself is suffering. No matter how much of something you get, it never satisfies your desire for better or more. This unceasing desire is suffering; its nature is emotional frustration.
- Lama Yeshe

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. 
- Pablo Picasso

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.  
- Henri Matisse

In art, as in life, everything is possible so long as it is based on love. - Marc Chagall

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding. - Van Gogh

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. ~Erich Fromm

Don't squander your aggressive energy in frustration, resentment, hostility or self sabotage; channel it into creating the life you want by making a place in the market for the work you love. ~Laurence G. Boldt

Every day is an opportunity to be creative - the canvas is your mind, the brushes and colours are your thoughts and feelings, the panorama is your story, the complete picture is a work of art called, 'my life'. Be careful what you put on the canvas of your mind today - it matters.  ~Innerspace

Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things.... Not everybody can be a painter - and there is no need also. If everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be difficult to live! And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no need. But everybody can be creative. Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. If you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine. You become more divine as you become more creative. 
All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don't know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it - whatsoever it is! ~Osho