"People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?"

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Source : David Rakoff (2010). “Half Empty”, p.217, Anchor

David Rakoff

#Forgiveness Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.”
“Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.”
“He looked a shade too healthy and nobody likes that. Particularly in New York.”
“You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. There are so many of her movies that I love.”

Source : "George Kotsiopoulos #nofilter Challenge:‘Fashion Police’ Judge Reveals What Happened After He Insulted Cameron Diaz" by Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2013.
“I've found that most people who are bound together legally would be a damn sight happier together -or apart -if they were released from the contract. A man-woman relationship is physical and emotional, not legal.”
“We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people.”
“I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.”
“Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.”

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