Nicholas Sparks Quotes

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

I don't ever want anyone to think that I'm being judgmental. I gotta do everything I can do to not be preachy.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

I don't know what's best for other people.

I do ask myself why I make people so enraged, because I only ever say what I think. And while I know it might not be everyone's point of view, that doesn't seem particularly intolerable to me.

We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.

I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to people.

I know how irritating it is when a producer puts his hand in everything.

I've learned I can't change every opinion or have everyone's approval. If I get caught up in that, I'm worried about the wrong things.

When people ask me a personal question, I answer it in a personal way. I can only speak from the footsteps and the shoes that I've walked in.

I can't judge Justin Bieber, because I don't know him.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess.

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.