“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
Unconditional love allows you to disagree with the choices or beliefs of others while still respecting their right to have them.
don Miguel Ruiz • The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom (Toltec Mastery Series)
Over time, the people we respect tend to be the ones who are able to argue for their own point of views … even if we happen to disagree with them.
Rohit Bhargava • Always Eat Left Handed: 15 Surprising Secrets For Killing It At Work And In Real Life
agenda—with whom I disagree in such interesting ways.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Freedom is exercised in the confrontation by each other, in the context of an infinitely extensible work of imaginative understanding, of two irreducibly dissimilar individuals. Love is the imaginative recognition of, that is respect for, this otherness.