Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes

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.

Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.

Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.

I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires.

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.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

My aim in life is not to judge.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

You have to work on forgiveness and love, and that includes your own self.

It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others.

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

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

I don't really judge myself, I guess. I don't really judge other players.

Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.