
“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
Source: The Insufferable Gaucho
The Last Lecture (2008)
Variant: And he put his arm around my shoulders and we went for a little walk and he said, Randy, it’s such a shame that people perceive you as so arrogant. Because it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life. What a hell of a way to word “you’re being a jerk.” [laughter] Right? He doesn’t say you’re a jerk. He says people are perceiving you this way and he says the downside is it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish.
“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
Source: The Insufferable Gaucho
“That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset.”
Source: Me of Little Faith
"Forgiveness" (7 July 2007)
Context: When you forgive someone, you're not justifying what they've done — you're not saying it was ok, you're letting it go, to stay in the past, where it happened, and moving away from it, so it doesn't sink its teeth into you, and follow you wherever you go. And of course, we don't know what events are going on in that person's life that perhaps led them to do what they were doing, or inspired them, or what kind of person they are sometimes. We never will know everything about what is going on with the whole situation - we only know what has happened to us. And the truth is - there's no point in hanging on to it.
“People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.”
Bible Series V: Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers
Concepts