Thursday, February 16, 2012
Tennessee Williams A Few Words On Good/Bad People
“There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts... nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layer of opacity and see each other's naked hearts. Such cases seem purely theoretical to me...”
― Tennessee Williams
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Thank you for this quote It included a line I needed to hear tonight - "we are all activated more by misunderstanding than malice". while I don't necessarily believe this applies to every situation it does to one I'm dealing with now and I thank you for posting. Looking forward to more. Check out my blog as well!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'd go along with that. The older you get... life tends to lose its high contrast. People become shades of grey as your understanding of human nature grows. Communication is key.
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