Tanushree Dutta Quotes

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.

I realize you can't please everyone.

Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

We must take our friends as they are.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

Everybody's funny if you love them.

Hairdressers don't judge you. They pretty much accept everything because they've heard everything. They're on your side, like a cheerleader, and there's no competition. They don't want to be you, and you don't want to be them.

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

But when they needed love or help or had a problem of any kind, they could always go to Roselle because she was always there for them. That was not always the case with me.

Everyone loves to be loved.

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

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.