Juliette Lewis Quotes

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.

I know that everybody is seeking bliss. And they're all looking for it mostly in the wrong ways, and as a result of that, they err, but there's no reason to hate them; they just don't know any better. Jesus himself on the cross said, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." And so people who hate you, that's their problem. It doesn't have to be your problem. I wish them well.

Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

You hate evil, but you don't hate the people that do evil. So, hate has to go out the window.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

So many people want me to hate him and destroy him, but I don't want to. I want him to be happy. He's not a bad person.

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can he really see?

But I'm here to serve people. I'm not here to wave my finger in people's faces and point out to them how terrible they are or what I hate about them or anything along those lines. That's not my place. I'm in no position to condemn anybody.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.