Quotes on….well….on how a person ends up in therapy

Posted on November 17, 2010 by My Bleeding Ink

“There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny.  You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.”
~William Hazlitt

“Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.”
~The Foundation, by Isaac Asimov

Raising your voice does not reinforce your argument.

“Hate is the consequence of fear.  We fear something before we hate it.  A boy who fears clowns becomes a man who hates clowns.”
~Cyril Connolly, British critic (1903-1974)

Anybody can become angry-that is easy.
But to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way.  That is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
~Aristotle

“No human creature can give orders to love.”
~George Sand, French author (1804-1876)

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
~Carl W. Buechner

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
~Andre Gide

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”
~Sigmund Freud

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
~Theodore M. Hesburgh

“You can discover what your enemy fears the most by observing the things he uses to frighten you.”
~Eric Hoffer

“When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.”
~Thomas Chandler Haliburton
(1796 – 1865) Nova Scotian humorist

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process
he does not become a monster. And when you look long into
an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, (1885-86)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

“I’m starting to get over the urge to kill somebody,”
~A.DiFranco, from the song “Out of Range”

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quotes on friendship

Posted on November 17, 2010 by My Bleeding Ink

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement,
who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing,
and face us with the reality of our powerlessness,
that is the friend who cares.
~Henri Nouwen

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter”
~Marlene Dietrich

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
~Karl Barth

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
~Agatha Christie

“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem
strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.”
~Goethe, German poet and scientist

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
~Barbara Kingsolver

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
~George MacDonald

“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.’’
~George Jean Nathan, American author and critic (1882-1958)

It is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
~Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
~Winnie the Pooh

and yes this last one is in the right category….
“I’m a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being… by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is so low on the list that it is irrelevant.”
~actor Paul Newman
(January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008)

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.  I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.  Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.
~Frida Kahlo

Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser.
~osho

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too?  I thought I was the only one.”
~CS Lewis

“Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.”
~Phyllis McGinley

“I really don’t mind what happens now and then, as long as you’ll be my friend at the end.”
~3 Doors Down “Kryptonite”

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Quotes on what I think about being alive (and being dead)

Posted on November 17, 2010 by My Bleeding Ink

“Death cannot stop true love… all it can do is delay it for awhile.”
~From the movie “The Princess Bride”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
~Agatha Christie

“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.’’
~Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (1903-1968)

“Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle.”
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or ‘broken heart,’ is excuse for cutting off one’s life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in her suicide note, august 17, 1935

and in the same vein, because I really really believe this:

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Death of one’s own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.”
~Eugene O’Neill, American playwright (1888-1953)

“Everybody would be nice to you if they knew you were dying.”
~Bruce Pearson (Robert DeNiro) in the movie “Bang the Drum Slowly”

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
~John Burrough

“E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.”
[“And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars“]
– from Dante’s “Divine Comedy

“I hope the end is joyful – and I hope never to come back.”
~the last entry in the diary of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954)

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