Dave Eggers Quotes

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

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

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

I probably should have had a little more tolerance with Jimmy Johnson. Seriously.

I think it's all about people loving each other and having compassion, accepting one another and educating themselves.

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.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

We must take our friends as they are.

I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

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.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discerning without being judgmental, because condemning someone certainly feels like a comic event that brings other things back on you.

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.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

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

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

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.