To live and let live is all about tolerance

• Live and let live: Said to mean that people should accept the way other people live and behave, especially if they do things in a different way.  Oxford Dictionary
• Live and let live: Show tolerance for those different from yourself.  Dictionary.com
• Live and let live: Used to say that a person should live as he or she chooses and let other people do the same.  Merriam Webster
• Tolerance,  Freedom,  Acceptance,  Love

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Allow others to live as they choose 

• Live and let live. German Proverb
• Allow the world to live as it chooses and allow yourself to live as you choose. Richard Bach
• Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. Wayne Dyer

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Let people work out their own issues… 

• Today I will refuse to jump into the middle of others’ affairs, issues, and relationships. I will trust others to work out their own problems, including the ideas and feelings they want to communicate to each other. Melody Beattie
• To think that I know what’s best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what’s right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you. Byron Katie

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… and to think for themselves 

• Think for yourself and allow others the privilege of doing so too. We all dance to the beat of a different drum. There are few absolute ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’ in the world. You need to live your life your way – the way that’s right for you. Marc and Angel Chernoff

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Let people learn their own lessons 

• You cannot learn other people’s lessons for them. They must do the work themselves, and they’ll do it when they’re ready. Louise L. Hay

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Stop trying to control others 

• You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do. A J Kitt
• When we try to control others, or obsessively control our surroundings, we are trying to control things that aren’t in our control. This will inevitably end up in failure, frustration, and conflict with others. Leo Babauta

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Let go of your incessant expectations of others …

• I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor should I feel the world must live up to mine. Fritz Perls
• When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. Donald Miller
• Expectation

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… especially that they be perfect 

• No one is flawless, and if you expect perfection from a partner you are either delusional or narcissistic. Jean Twenge & Keith Campbell
• It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections. Daisaku Ikeda
• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins
• When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. Donald Miller
• You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not. Jodi Picoult
• If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. Leo Tolstoy
• When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick. Bill Lemley

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Allow people the freedom to be as they are… 

• I allow myself and those around me the freedom to be as they are. I do not rigidly apply my idea of how things should be. I do not force solutions on problems. Deepak Chopra
• I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are. Abraham-Hicks
• Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed… Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

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… and the space to be themselves 

• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. Max de Pree

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Live and help live 

• Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much. Orison S. Marden

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Accept people as they are… 

• A woman wants to be cherished – to be loved and accepted for who she is. John Gray
• The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. Brian Tracy
• It is not up to you to change your brother, but merely to accept him as he is. A Course In Miracles
• Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance. Deepak Chopra
• Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations. Gerald G. Jampolsky
• Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. Dinah Craik
• Acceptance

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… and celebrate their uniqueness 

• The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. Amit Ray
• People are weird. Love them for it. Karl Moore
• As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others. Robert H. Schuller
• Uniqueness

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Stop judging people …

• We would not have to forgive people if we didn’t judge them in the first place. Barry Neil Kaufman
• Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat. Scottish Proverb
• Let go of the need to judge

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… and constantly picking at their faults 

• Be happy without picking flaws. Victor Hugo
• Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. Kahlil Gibran
• Some people find fault like there is a reward for it. Zig Ziglar

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Stop trying to change others for you can only change yourself 

• Don’t try to change people. There Divine Beings know exactly where they need to be.  Accept people as they are. Geraldine Evans
• I’ve discovered that you can’t change people. They can change themselves. Jim Rohn
• Quite often we change our jobs, friends and spouses instead of changing ourselves. Akbarali H. Jetha
• You can’t change other people. You can only change yourself. Celestine Chua
• Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. Jacob M. Braude
• The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself. Saint Peter of Alcantara
• When you stop trying to change others and work on changing yourself, your world changes for the better.
• No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. Marilyn Ferguson
• Never underestimate your power to change yourself. Never overestimate your power to change others. Jackson Brown Jr.
• Change in others often occurs when you no longer need them to change. When you drop demands and expectations.  Eckhart Tolle
• Do not meddle with the personal habits and practices of others, though they are your nearest and dearest; these things are none of your business. Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude; make that right and you will know that all else is right. Wallace D. Wattles

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Grant the gift of freedom

• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. Abraham Lincoln
• Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom. Peace Pilgrim
• The price of freedom is to allow freedom. Very few people are willing to pay the price.  Leonard Jacobson
• The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. Carlo Dossi
• You cannot be free if you stop others from being free
• For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela
• Freedom

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More thoughts 

• Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. Richard Bach
• I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are. Abraham-Hicks
• Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. Carl Sagan
• No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. Frederick Douglass
• I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference. Greta Garbo
• Judging others against our own standards is being egoistical. Respect everyone’s right to be different! Wai-Fatt Yee
• The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease. Marianne Moore

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On a lighter note 

• So I say, “Live and let live.” That’s my motto. “Live and let live.” And anyone who can’t go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherfucker. It’s a simple philosophy, but it’s always worked in our family. George Carlin
• Go home and let all your relatives off the potter’s wheel. You are not the potter!  Joyce Meyer

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