Bianca Kajlich Quotes

Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Who can judge another man's suffering?

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

One of the things that I try to do when I have a tough time with anything - whatever it may be - is just look at someone else's situation. Here in Staten Island, look, I have people that have children that haven't been back in their home for 18 months after Sandy. They lost every worldly possession.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

I would like to see someone walk a mile in my shoes for five minutes.

Before I judge someone, I need to talk to them and learn what their journey's are.

A lot of people have it tougher than I do.

I understand how it is to be away from your family for so long, to leave your comfort zone, it's not easy. That's why I've never fallen apart with anyone because I understand their perspective, as well.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

No matter how bad I was feeling, I always thought, 'Stephen must be feeling worse.'

The more I speak and travel, I realize I don't have it that bad. There are so many people that have it so much worse than I do.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

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.

People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that.

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.