Huchet Painting Quotes & Sayings

Volatile expressions of anger and hostility combined with a tendency to blame others often result from feeling shame ... If you are shame-prone, any accusation directed at you, regardless of how mildly it may be delivered, has the potential to make you feel that you have failed or that you are inadequate. Rather than simply admit wrongdoing, you get angry and accusatory in order to hold yourself blameless. Using anger or hostility for self-protection hides your vulnerability and needs. Unfortunately, since most people are repelled by an angry response, this method may be effective.
Your anger may drive away the very people who should know your real feelings, and it may deprive you of the opportunity to allow others to be aware of your needs. Behaving in an offensive or frightening way toward others can cause them to retreat out of fear. But, actually, the fear is your own, which you have turned against someone else in the form of anger. — Mary C. Lamia

Sometimes you wonder why you're out here. And the stupid thing about it, is you haven't got an answer. - excerpt from: freefalling — Darlenne Susan Girard

Never try to be better than anyone else, but never cease to be the best you can be. That's achievement. — John Wooden

Those who care how they look care how they live and they will be the achievers. — John Patrick Hickey

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. — William Jay

I gave up trying to find friends at college and befriended dead people between the margins. — Eddie Huang

When my mother would make me sandwiches for school - zucchini and eggs, pepper and eggs, everything was with eggs - the oil would drip out of the bag. She didn't care if I lost the sandwich - she wanted that brown bag back. She used to give me artichoke sandwiches. You have no idea how embarrassing it is to sit in the schoolyard eating an artichoke with a piece of bread. A lot of kids didn't know what it was, they'd say, Look at that guy eating flowers! — Pat Cooper

I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do. — Toni Collette

So tired of Noam and Herod and Sir and Angra and all these arrogant, puppet-master men who hold all the strings and refuse to give them up. — Sara Raasch

There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate. — Marco Rubio