Acclimatizing Quotes & Sayings

When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy. — Dan Gable

Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one. — Abraham H. Maslow

Everybody can digest milk when they're little. — Carl Zimmer

We spend this life looking for a center, a place where we can suspend without a wobble. The specific coordinates are elusive, scalable only by the heart. _Population: 485_, p 202 — Michael Perry

Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did not want me to know why ... What if they were dangerous? Then I was terribly dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing people to them. — Whitley Strieber

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. — Ambrose Bierce

I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die. — Mike Tyson

though it was such a bizarre world, filled only with the echoing voices of people who had apparently already agreed with each other. — Zadie Smith

Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed. — William Maxwell

Of all the things we keep inside the worst are secrets. The things we are so ashamed of, so afraid of, we need to hide them even from ourselves. Secrets lead to delusion and delusion leads to lies, and lies create a wall.
Our secrets make us sick because they separate us from other people. Keep us alone. Turn us into fearful, angry, bitter people. Turn us against others, and finally against ourselves. — Louise Penny

A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man. — Robert F. Kennedy

The truth really does set you free - but what they don't tell you is the process hurts like hell. — Rachel Van Dyken