We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.
Interpretation
Love for one another is essential, but personal liking is not mandatory.
This quote by Peter De Vries suggests that while it is important to love one another as human beings, there is no obligation to necessarily like everyone. The recognition of shared humanity can lead to complex emotions such as rivalry and enmity, highlighting the difference between universal love and personal affinity or friendship.
In practice
During a team-building workshop, to illustrate the importance of collaboration despite personal differences.
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.
The key to fostering connection in the face of a 'no' is always hearing 'yes' to something else.
Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.
We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.
The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.
Being LGBT does not make you less human.
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