Jeff Koons Quotes

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

We're a new generation of people. We need to be happy. We need to love each other. We need to accept each other for who we are and stop judging each other. Live life and love. Stop judging just to keep yourself secure. Look deeper. There's always something deeper than what it is.

We must take our friends as they are.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

I just try not to judge. Don't judge me, and I won't judge you.

You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.

I don't judge my characters.

Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

I want to make people feel good about who they are regardless of who they are or where they come from or the color of their skin or what their family acts like or what they look like. I am all about acceptance of others and of yourself.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views.

Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.

I can't approach a character with judgment.

The happiest person in the world has struggled. And none of us are perfect. And people can judge. There's so much judgment going on. And I just don't think that's what God's about.

The spirit of forgiveness should prevail, and there should be tolerance and understanding among all political parties for us to move forward.

It's important to accept people for the reality of what they are, who they are, whatever that is and heal from that yourself.

At the end of the day, there should be no judgment or body shaming on anyone.