Quotes About Judgment

Often the discrepancy works for us: people don't know who to worry about, the little girl with the gun or the big guy apparently without, and the distraction of deciding keeps them off balance.

Pale beauty stands aghast," he said, "at the vulgar ugliness of men.

The things we buy and the brands we use are just another way for us to project our preconceptions onto one another.

How dare they discuss her as though she were a wayward child in need of a good strapping!

Oh, for fuck's sake; sometimes a raccoon is just a raccoon!

Everyone should be impeached," Ellen said. "For being so bad at living.

A pithy Zen aphorism goes like this: To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight; / To a monk she's a distraction; / To a mosquito, a good meal. It makes the point well: how things seem depends on the lens or filter through which we look at them.

When we say, "I accept myself as I am," we are not accepting a story about a good or bad self. Rather, we are accepting the immediate mental and sensory experiences we interpret as self. We are seeing the familiar wants and fears, the judging and planning thoughts as a part of the flow of life. Accepting them in this way actually enables us to recognize that experience is impersonal and frees us from the trap of identifying ourselves as a deficient and limited self.

when i look back over my own years of spiritual practice, i see that my heart and mind have been most profoundly awakened in the context of deep human relationship — giving birth and raising a child, having my heart broken, helping and being helped, facing my fears of intimacy, struggling with a judgmental mind, trying to love more fully.

Throwing a work of art in the trash doesn't devalue the work of art. It only shows the lack of wisdom and judgement in the person who so carelessly tossed it aside. - Tara Johnson "All Through the Night

Don't take insults to you heart, because bad words comes from stupid people and good words comes from smart people. If you think about it what kind of person it was who said bad words and what kind of person it was who said good words, you understand. You can't take stupid people words seriously and you can take smart people words seriously. I'm not perfect.

An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.

This was, I realized, similar to Winifred's position. But we came at it from opposite directions—I from that of being more interested in reveling in the good in people and not wasting time with those who had none to offer, while she preferred slander and mockery. I'd never once heard her compliment anyone. When had a kind word ever escaped her hard lips? Misery was her trade and I wanted no part of it.

Quantity is a poor measure of the artistic merits of a collection,

If you had known this: I love mercy, 45 not sacrifice, you would not have condemned those on whom is no blame.

13 Judge not, that you be not judged: condemn not, that you be not condemned: 14 forgive, and it shall be forgiven you: release, and you shall be released: give, that you may be given unto; with good measure, abundant, full, they shall thrust into your 15 bosoms.

Love is the enemy of sound judgment, and occasionally this is in service of the good.

That's your fate as a black man. Carried by six or judged by twelve.

the smile bent into a smirk. "Tell me, do I look like someone who can't pay my bills?

she looks me up and down like I might be holding her grandbabies hostage in my body.

I had been in kindergarten when I figured out that I wasn't pretty. That is the worst thing about being a little kid; nobody is shy about letting you know these things.

Who is to blame, then, when everyone is innocent? And what is the value of blame at all?

Nobody around here thought you did it. It was just the wrong race and the wrong time.

make plus model plus race equaled drug dealer,