Dysfunction Quotes

• If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creating, Evil, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.28, Penguin

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• The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.23, Penguin

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• Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present....Nobody chooses dysfunction, conflict, pain. Nobody chooses insanity. They happen because there is not enough presence in you to dissolve the past, not enough light to dispel the darkness. You are not fully here. You have not quite woken up yet. In the meantime, the conditioned mind is running your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Spiritual, Pain

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  You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Happiness, Moving On, Letting Go

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• I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

  Janice Dickinson

  Queens, Mistake, Made

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• I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Pain, Believe, Certain

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• After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Years, People, Growth

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It”, p.93, Profile Books

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• I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

  Emmy Rossum

  Mom, Growing Up, Sibling

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• An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

  Josh Radnor

  Fall, Attention, News

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.

  Michele Bachmann

  Real, Bisexual, Compassion

  EdWatch National Education Conference, November 06, 2004.

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• I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Get Better, Poor, Bigs

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• My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Mother, Children, Divorce

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• You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look

  T. D. Jakes

  Looks, Appearance, Pastor

  Twitter post from Nov 20, 2013

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• And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.

  Hugh Jackman

  Struggle, Thinking, Actors

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• There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  School, Catholic, Trying

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• Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

  James Hillman

  Depression, Cold, Miserable

  "The Soul Of Winter: A Call To Deepen" by Dr. Judith Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2009.

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• Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

  James Young

  Music, Fun, Band

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• The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Opportunity, Class, Historical

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• I hate that word dysfunction.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Hate, I Hate

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• When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.48, New World Library

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• An abundance of peer-reviewed science is showing that a whole foods, plant-based diet prevents most heart attacks, strokes, and even many kinds of cancer. It gets you to your ideal weight easily and sustainably, reverses Type 2 diabetes, and even fixes erectile dysfunction (because it greatly improves circulation!).

  Kathy Freston

  Cancer, Heart, Type 2 Diabetes

  "Kathy Freston: On How to Become a Veganista". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

  James Hillman

  Calling, May, Ineptitude

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

  Dave Ramsey

  Guilt, Stuff, Spending

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• The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power.

  Caroline Myss

  Issues, Ingredients, Common

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• The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions, is an odd concept. In my youth I was running from my family to try to find out who I was-their influence distracted me. Now I see what a powerful hold they have, no matter what.

  Susan Minot

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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