China Machado Quotes

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Every single thing I've done has made me who I am today. The only thing I would take back is hurting the people that I love, and the people who I love have already read my lyrics and heard my apologies. But the rest of the world, I don't need to apologize to them. My life doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the world.

A man should never apologize!

I better know how to take care of myself.

I now see that I never needed to be so mean or cruel.

Get out of people's way and let them be who they are. If they make a mistake, fine, that's on them.

I just try to do the best I can for myself and the people around me.

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.

I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up.