Islands In The Stream Book Quotes & Sayings

As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts. All individuals who are genuinely seeking well-being within a healing context realize that it is important to that process not to make being a victim a stance of pride or a location from which to simply blame others. We need to speak our shame and our pain courageously in order to recover. Addressing woundedness is not about blaming others; however, it does allow individuals who have been, and are, hurt to insist on accountability and responsibility both from themselves and from those who were the agents of their suffering as well as those who bore witness. Constructive confrontation aids our healing. — Bell Hooks

What does a woman want? More. — Chris Evans

Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married. — Ada Calhoun

there are interesting, smart, kind people just absolutely everywhere, and that when you do things you care about, you find quick kinship with people who are passionate about those same things. — Shauna Niequist

Tolerance level of each one changes as per situation - Is it Hypocrisy ? — Adil Adam Memon

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal. — Johnny Depp

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece! — Terry McMillan

There's never been anything funny about a woman dying for love. — Richard Yates

Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university. — George W. Bush

When the veil of death has been drawn between us and the objects of our regard, how quick-sighted do we become to their merits, and how bitterly do we remember words, or even looks, of unkindness which may have escaped in our intercourse with them. — Reginald Heber

How do you recruit and keep volunteers? Part of the answer is that we clarify the win. Countless individuals quit working in churches every year — Andy Stanley