Ayelet Waldman Quotes

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

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

I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

Ignore the ignorant.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

I try not to make personal attacks on people - unless they're deserving.

Love is kind, right? It's not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.

We don't get any hate mail.

It's one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But it's quite another thing entirely to support name-calling and nastiness.

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

You have to give love to get love.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot.

We are all deserving of love.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

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.