Tyler Perry Quotes

I don't worry too much about people hating or insulting me. I'm a sinful man, and I've made a lot of mistakes. People have reason to hate me.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

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

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.

You have to work on forgiveness and love, and that includes your own self.

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

I forgive very easily, and I suppose, in the same way, I expect to be forgiven very easily as well. I grew up with that.

Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

With Bojack we are seeing him on this journey. I think we're hoping for him to find a way to be more gracious and kind and positive and better to people in his life and better to himself, but I don't know if I necessarily frame it as he was a bad person and he will become a good person.

I've had people send messages that said, 'I'm sorry how I treated you in high school.' It was just through kindness. I still think of the world the same way I did growing up. When I got hurt, I decided that this is how people are. But the world is changing, and even those people have changed. And I have. I need to let go, too.

Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.

When you start to find balance, then you start to ask more important questions, like, 'Who am I really?' That's when you start seeing that every single person around you is a human being just doing the best that they can.

Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.

For me, everyone has good and bad qualities. I feel you must not always look at the bad qualities but also focus on the good ones, because we all have flaws.

Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.

Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for.

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.