Gaslighting Survivor Quotes & Sayings

Stand-up is great because I can get everything off my chest. — Bill Maher

We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations. — Albert Einstein

The precepts "Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless them that curse you" ... are born from the Gospel's profound spirit of individualism, which refuses to let one's own actions and conduct depend in any way on somebody else's acts. The Christian refuses to let his acts be mere reactions - such conduct would lower him to the level of his enemy. The act is to grow organically from the person, "as the fruit from the tree." ... What the Gospel demands is not a reaction which is the reverse of the natural reaction, as if it said: "Because he strikes you on the cheek, tend the other" - but a rejection of all reactive activity, of any participation in common and average ways of acting and standards of judgment. — Max Scheler

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember — Homer

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown? — Horace

To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent. — Gerald Jampolsky

Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal! — Petrarch

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy. — Terence Stamp

Let us crush these so-called biological clocks that give us nothing but fear, and encourage us to make stupid decisions. Let us crush these biological clocks that hurt us and rob us of the fabulous lives that Jesus died to give us. These clocks that not only hurt us, but hurt many generations after us.
It is time. We need you. — Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

As if it isn't enough to look like someone has slapped a pack of margarine over his head, he has to cover himself in doodles as — Fredrik Backman

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters. — E.F. Schumacher

I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud. — J.K. Rowling

Behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that would never show if you poked for it, but could be reached if you knew just how - and never let on that you were looking for it. — Isaac Asimov

Priesthood, Imamhood, Pundithood often come hand in hand with tyranny. — Abhijit Naskar