H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

I have come to a point where I have accepted that not everyone is meant to be friends.

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

We must take our friends as they are.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Friends accept you the way you are.

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

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.

When you love someone, you don't try to change them.

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

I don't live with my head in the sand - I see people's flaws. I don't like everything my friends do or say. But one, I don't judge or reprimand them to their face because it's not my job to tell them they're screwing up; it's just my job to love them.

I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.

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.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

Love is sometimes shown in the things you don't say, don't keep track of and don't notice. The greatest kindness is often shown in letting things go. None of us is perfect, but we can all be perfect friends and perfect partners by allowing those that we love to be imperfect. Give those around you the 'break' that you hope the world will give you on your own 'bad day' and you'll never, ever regret it.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.