Elizabeth Strout Quotes

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?

I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Everyone can have a bad day.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

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

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

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'.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Play the role as a human being... human beings are three-dimensional.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

We're all humans - people make mistakes.

People treat serious subjects so seriously, which is so obvious a way of dealing with them. I'm always thinking that the best way of dealing with them is to show people as human beings.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

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.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.