Anne Perry Quotes

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Don't judge someone's attitude until you've felt their pain.

Who can judge another man's suffering?

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions

I love taking people on that journey, which I feel like can open them up to seeing human beings a little more complexly. People that you originally don't like, maybe they have reasons for the way they are, and maybe we can start to understand each other a little better as opposed to being quick to judge and dismiss people.

Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

When so many of our dreams had come true and yet I still saw that so many of my friends were in a lot of pain... I saw their pain from a different perspective and realized that I can't just sing my way out of all this suffering. I have to try to understand human nature and myself and the nature of suffering and a lot of these other issues on a deeper level.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.