Why should it impede your happiness for others to have differing views on politics or religion?
for others to paint their houses purple or grow asparagus in place of a grassy lawn?
for others to dress, mingle, celebrate, or dine in their own manner?
The path to happiness is to live your life joyfully in your own way
and to support and encourage others to do likewise.
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course In Miracles
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
- George Clooney
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
You prove your worth with your actions,
not with your mouth.
- Jean Paul
The greatest of these is love.
- 1 Corinthians 13:13
What we have to do...
is to find a way to celebrate our diversity
and debate our differences
without fracturing our communities.
- Hillary Clinton
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
- Booth Tarkington
Further reading: Arguing
Listen, Really Listen
Opinions
Disagreement