Tolerance

Tolerance doesn’t mean seeing someone harming himself and saying, “Live and let live.” That’s indifference. Apathy. If you see someone going the wrong way and you care about him, you’ll do everything you can to set him straight.
Tolerance means that although you see his faults in all their ugliness naked before you, that doesn’t decrease by one iota your respect for him as a fellow human being, and for all the good he has within him.
And if you say, “How can I be expected to lead a life of paradox, to both respect and rebuke at once?”
Let me ask you, do you have any faults? And do you not respect yourself nonetheless?
If you can live a life of paradox for yourself, you can give at least that privilege to the other guy.

Wanton love

Someone wrote that he had, in his administrative duties, taken an action that fiercely angered one of his associates and turned him against him.
The Rebbe replied:
Bring into your heart a deep love of this man,
and his anger will spontaneously disappear.

first stages of your life

The first stages of your life are to learn to be a master over yourself.
But then comes a major and difficult transition in life, when you take on the responsibilities of a family.
Now you must learn to put aside your own self-improvement for their sake.

Make a single perfect whole. None of us is perfect without all the rest of us.

In our essence, we are all one soul, with one source.
In our character, we are all complementary to each other, none of us complete, each one contributing what the other lacks, each one adding his touch of perfection to his fellow. Like a massive jigsaw puzzle, we fit together to make a single perfect whole.
None of us is perfect without all the rest of us.
And all the rest of us are incomplete when a single individual is missing.

Keeping your trust in G for yourself

Keep your trust in G‑d for yourself.
When things don’t go so well, tell yourself it is all really for the good, and rejoice in however G‑d treats you.
But when others come with their troubles, telling them they should rejoice in their afflictions is plain callousness. Cry with them, pray for them, do everything you can for them—and then you can tell them to trust in G‑d.

Wanton acts of love versus wanton hatred

One who is full of himself fills all the space around him. There is no room left for anyone else. Therefore, he despises another person by virtue of the space that other person consumes. He may give reasons for his disdain, but the reasons are secondary.
This is called wanton hatred. It is the reason given for our exile. It is the core of all evil. It is balanced and cured by wanton acts of love and kindness.