Hurtful Quotes - Page 4

• Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I love unique platforms in order to do your best to stand for your faith as long as it's not something that is hurtful or negative. I welcome that opportunity. It's always fun. But you do have to use as much wisdom and discernment as you can.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Fun, Unique, Opportunity

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I think the notion that we are different just because of skin color, and that we should be kept apart or kept from interbreeding, is very hurtful.

  David Oyelowo

  Thinking, Skin Color, Skins

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period.

  J. Cole

  Beautiful, Bad Relationship, Periods

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Of course, there are hurtful moments of the malice and rumors - the worst are not the ones that affect you, but ones that affect other family members. But you have to distance yourself from it, otherwise you would be unhappy.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Distance, Rumor, Unhappy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The only way out of the Scientology church is rip the Band-Aid off and know that your eternity is not at stake and know that you're doing the right thing and know that you're involved in a damaging, hurtful cult. Just look outside, don't listen to Scientology. They are not saving the world. Don't give up your lives, don't give up your families, don't give up your friends for something that turns its back on you and is ultimately a lie. What's Scientology's selling is a lie.

  Leah Remini

  Giving Up, Rip, Lying

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related to sex. They included the kind of censorship laws that existed in the movies and books when I was young.

  Hugh Hefner

  Book, Feelings, Censorship

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.latimes.com. July 31, 1994.

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• We can all make powerful choices. We can all take back control by not blaming chance, fate, or anyone else for our outcomes. It’s within our ability to cause everything to change. Rather than letting past hurtful experiences sap our energy and sabotage our success, we can use them to fuel positive, constructive change.

  Darren Hardy

  Powerful, Fate, Past

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Jun 02, 2014

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• Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.

  Dave Zirin

  Sports, Native American, Racism

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• And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Men, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.83, Penguin

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• I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings. No matter how ancient the conflict, no matter how hateful, no matter how hurtful, peace can prevail.

  George J. Mitchell

  Peace, Believe, Matter

  "The Sadat Lectures: Words and Images on Peace, 1997-2008". Book edited by Shibley Telhami, 2010.

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• I felt a combination of happiness and humility [ to People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People ]. At the same time there's a lot of pressure, because people can approach you whose intentions aren't in the best place, and they can say things that are very hurtful. And on one of those days when you wake up and you just go and get your coffee without worrying about looking your best, you make yourself vulnerable to someone who'd say something like, "You look awful for being on the Top 100 list."

  Zoe Saldana

  Beautiful, Coffee, Humility

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• I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

  Matt Chandler

  Pain, Loss, Thinking

  Source: www.thegospelcoalition.org

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• What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in a hurtful way, your guilt won't reverse your blunder in some magical manner. It won't speed your learning processes so as to reduce the chance you'll make the same mistake in the future. Other people won't love and respect you more because you are feeling guilty and putting yourself down in this manner. Nor will your guilt lead to productive living. So what's the point?

  David D. Burns

  Mistake, People, Feelings

  Source: time.com

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• It was always about the future of writers, and about the way writers are treated in the future, and I think that was really hurtful to a lot of people in my position who had 160 people who depended on them to get this over with. So there was a lot of pain in it, and in that sense it will never be worth it, but I do think it was important.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Pain, Thinking, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

  Lamar Odom

  Regret, Thinking, People

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• I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in order for a poem to feel authentic, I have to feel I'm treading on very dangerous ground, which can mean that the resulting revelations may prove hurtful to other people. The time for thinking about that kind of guilt or any collective sense of responsibility, however, occurs much later in the creative process, after the poem is finished.

  Rita Dove

  Writing, Mean, Responsibility

  Interview with M. Wynn Thomas, www.english.illinois.edu. August 12, 1995.

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• Our spirits...require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Body, Malnutrition

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• No matter what I do, I can't help but feel that I'm under a microscope. Some of it is completely silly, and some of it is meant to be hurtful. For example, a website accumulated all of my music videos to point out perceived Illuminati images. I loved that one. Of course, it was all ridiculous but funny.

  Steve Aoki

  Silly, Example, Video

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• It's always nice to have people love the things that you do. But it's a lot of hard work, and people are always passionate, if it's family fare or a drama, it's the same amount of work and people invest everything into that, and when it doesn't come out the way you want it to, of course it's hurtful.

  Justin Bartha

  Drama, Nice, Hard Work

  Source: collider.com

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• The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings with the conversations with my mother about, when I was little, how we lived and about suicide and talking about it, so it's something positive, it brought us more together, because people might never discuss that. Some families never go near certain subjects because it's too hurtful or too close or too dangerous. But within doing these photographs, I also wanted to open up a conversation with her about certain things about life.

  Jurgen Teller

  Mother, Suicide, Talking

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• Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Acting, Levels, Limits

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: A Practical Alternative To Growing Old”, p.188, Random House

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• When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Dream, Hate, Heart

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• When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting ourselves feel it as we never let ourselves feel it before, and then, having felt it, by laying it aside; we can start to take care of ourselves the way we take care of people we love.

  Frederick Buechner

  Hurt, Father, People

  Frederick Buechner (1991). “Telling Secrets”, Harper San Francisco

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• I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's been a major problem over the years. But obviously, to the young writer that's unfair and it's discriminatory, and it can be very hurtful to one's career.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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