Otis Williams Quotes

I'm human. I mean, I'm not always happy.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can't be naive.

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.

I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that means? No one out there is perfect.

I respect anybody that is very in tune with their feelings.

I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it's because my journey has been so bumpy.

Characters, like people, don't need to be right - only understood and, perhaps, accepted. We are all grey, lighter and darker, depending on our state of security.

With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

Judging others blocks me from inner peace

So many times, we take things to heart and that eats us up, and we think it over and over again with work and our personal life. But most of the time, it is not personal. It may have nothing to do with you but, instead, what the other person is going through in their life.

If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

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

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I'm a very emotional person.