Chris Crutcher Quotes

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.

The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

I'm a very understanding person. That's something I was raised to be aware of - not everybody has the same shoes to fill or walks the same way or is on the same path.

If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Whenever you have a thought that excludes or judges anyone else, you aren't defining them. You're defining yourself as someone who needs to judge others.

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

I do have a bit of empathy I suppose, but it has come more recently as I'm knocking on 30's door and I think I'm getting there.

I have come to a point where I have accepted that not everyone is meant to be friends.