Criticism - 5 views
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. (Fulton J. Sheen)
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. (Fulton J. Sheen)
Our own humanity is intimately bound up with our capacity to sense something of others' needs and feelings... We may or may not betray someone else when we do wrong by others, but we always betray ...
Why we should all admit (and embrace) being wrong: Attachment to our own rightness keeps us from preventing mistakes when we absolutely need to, and causes us to treat each other terribly. (Kathryn...
The unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion...
Could you please give an example? This quote is one of those linguistically ambiguous to me. Thank you! :-)
We cannot cherish others while judging and criticizing them.
Whenever we are inclined to insist, "I'm right and you're wrong!" we are probably wrong... When we are not willing to consider being wrong, our search for what is right is not completely sincere. (...
This reminds me of the statement I read a long time ago that went something like this, "Never give others the power to control your emotions. If you require others to make you happy, then they have...
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation. (Rab...
Foolishness is more than not knowing; it's that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance. (adapted, Paul Tripp)
It is a problem to insist that others need to change while being unwilling to consider how I, myself, might need to change too. (The Anatomy of Peace)
In a public medical group that adopted Arbinger's work, the leadership team was conducting an investigation into a case in which a patient died after he had sought medical consultation more than a ...
Very fine quote. Here's another, "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." Dalai Lama
The paradoxical reality of helping others: Other people do have problems and shortcomings. Yes. And remember: so do I. I am as imperfect as the people I desire to help. I will invite change in othe...
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. (La Rochefoucauld)
The recovery of emotional freedom: When I am able to simply be myself rather than focus on myself -- to stand self-forgetfully. (C. Terry Warner)