Ameen Rihani Quotes

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

I think that's important: to know 'the other,' as a means of coming to understanding.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

The world is far more interconnected today. Hence the need to understand each other is greater than ever before.

I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

We want to help the players be more comfortable in their own skin, a bit braver, a bit more aware and more understanding of each other.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

There is really no way we can know the heart, the intentions, or the circumstances of someone who might say or do something we find reason to criticize. Thus the commandment: 'Judge not.'

It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books... to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

I just try not to judge. Don't judge me, and I won't judge you.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

You've got to respect people; you've got to understand where they come from. We know where people in Oklahoma come from - that's why we get along.

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.