Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

When you allow yourself to really think about the future and the legacy you're leaving, you become gentler.

Critisism is just reflection of the person that speaking

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

You are incredibly wise. (Kat) Only when it comes to other people. It’s easy to see how to fix their lives. It’s much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron)

I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again"

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

I try not to be overly analytical.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

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

It is good for society to have this introspection.

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.