Elmo said

Elmo said, “Leeta, when you judge somebody, it’s like throwing a boomerang—goes in a circle and comes back to the one throws it. Love is like that too. Always comes back.”

~Excerpt from "The Sabbatical."

Advice is like snow

"Advice is like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind."

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet

My initial response

"My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character."

-Charles Barkley, American basketball player

Feedback

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."

-Ken Blanchard, American author

Criticism

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

~Winston Churchill

You too

You, too, withhold the very things you complain are missing from the world.

~Stephen C. Paul

You

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

~Buddha

All of us

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

~unknown

Don't pay any attention

Don't pay any attention to the critics. Don't even ignore them.

~Samuel Goldwyn

Any coward can

Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed.

~Charles Lindbergh