#gem

...No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#speech #judgement

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal? ↗

— H.D.

#doolittle #h-d #hilda #modernism #poetry

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?" "What's the point of having a heart if you don't use it to spare others from the harsh judgements of your mind? ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#judgement

Been eating candies, have you?" "You sent those?" She kept her mouth closed as much as possible. "Of course." He picked up the brown bad of candy on the table. "What's you..." He trailed off as he weighed the bad in his hands. "Didn't I give you three pounds of candy?" She smiled impishly. "You ate half the bag!" "Was I supposed to save it?" "I would have liked some!" "You never told me that." "Because I didn't expect you to consume all of it before breakfast!" She snatched the bad from him and put it on the table. "Well, that just hows poor judgement on your part, doesn't it? ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#gifts #judgement

As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can’t be just, be arbitrary ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#law #judgement

‎When you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three fingers back at ourselves. ↗

— Christopher Pike

#judgement

I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#judgement

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#judgement

True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#judgement #male-ego #hypocrisy

Sometimes the best goal you can set is just to get out of bed every day. If you can succeed at this, then other things become possible. ↗

— Cynthia Patterson

#encouragement