"You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Judgement Quotes #Influence Quotes #Contempt Quotes

“If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.”
“In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to. It's a modern Inferno, where Lowell plays both Dante and Virgil, guiding us through dozens of illuminating, bitter episodes from human history, all the while managing to hold a mirror to our confused hominid face as it squints at eternity and fails to grasp any of it.”
“There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late. Even the most beautiful weather will not allay the gardener's notion (well-founded actually) that he is somehow too late, too soon, or that he has too much stuff going on or not enough. For the garden is the stage on which the gardener exults and agonizes out every crest and chasm of the heart.”
“Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. We started a thing called cultural gift sharing, where everyone comes and says what his culture is, so the teachers and the administrators could understand they are different.”
“I just try to surround myself with good, positive supportive people who are trying to make the world better.”

Source : Source: theodysseyonline.com
“I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.”
“It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.”
“Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. â€¦Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the â€˜healing feeling.â€™”

Source : John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.78, Health Communications, Inc.

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