We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.
Interpretation
We should respond with love despite disagreement and negativity from others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining a loving attitude towards others, regardless of differing opinions or negative behaviors directed toward us or our loved ones. It suggests that our responses should not be governed by the hostility we face but should instead focus on the potential for understanding and compassion.
In practice
During a debate at a community meeting about differing opinions on policies.
You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security... It's very important you understand this. Once you understand this, you realize this is not an episode from the X Files, and you're not more likely to see a UFO if you do certain specific things.
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.
For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us.' But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.
There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.
Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.
I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion
Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love
… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love
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