“Ignore your critics. Everyone has them. They will tear down in an hour what they couldn’t build in a lifetime.
But life eventually puts all critics in their place. With time critics become remote and unimportant.
The people who love you don’t care about what your critics care about; they care about you as a human being. Your critics, they don’t see you as a human being. They have dehumanized you.
They see something in you that unsettles something in them. So, they have to decide: attack you or investigate their own dark mystery.
Most people don’t know you well enough to compliment you or criticize you, and it is the unseen moments of our lives that define us.”