Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

It's hard lovin' folks sometimes, isn't it?

If everyone could see everyone else the way their mom saw them, it would be a much better place for all of us.

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

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

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.

Shift from judgment to compassion to love.

Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.

The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

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

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.