Matisyahu Quotes

My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate.

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

We should just be good humans.

We're all human, and part of being human is showing respect and support for others' life choices.

I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.

Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish,--so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"

Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.