"Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Survivor Quotes #Violence Quotes #Bitterness Quotes

“I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.”
“I was self-conscious of being so lanky, of being me. I'd keep my head down, make excuses not to go out. I'd look in the mirror and hate myself. I thought I was disgusting. I cried constantly from 11 to 16. If I could tell my younger self anything, it would be to learn to love your flaws. It's OK to look in the mirror and feel really confident about yourself.”

Source : "I want to talk about what goes on". Interview With Eva Wiseman, September 20, 2013.
“I love when girls wear print-on-print. It looks so cool.”

Source : "Model Liberty Ross's Seemingly Always-Pregnant Mother Was a Muse for Her Genetic Collection". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. August 19, 2014.
“We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.”
“There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does”

Source : Dean Smith, John Kilgo, Sally Jenkins (2000). “A Coach's Life: My 40 Years in College Basketball”, p.206, Random House
“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”
“To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.”
“Your behaviour influences others through a ripple effect. A ripple effect works because everyone influences everyone else. Powerful people are powerful influences.”

Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.54, Green Dragon Books

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