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If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

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

It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.