Jessica Motaung Quotes & Sayings

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. — Malcolm X

The agony of this chronic stage of being cannot be endured for long. At the deepest level, toxic shame triggers our basic automatic defensive cover-ups. Freud called these automatic cover-ups our primary ego defenses. Once these defenses are in place they function automatically and unconsciously, sending our true and authentic selves into hiding. We develop a false identity out of this basic core. We become master impersonators. We avoid our core agony and pain and over a period of years, we avoid our avoidance. — John Bradshaw

A 20/20 mindset produces clarity, joy, and peace in your life. It produces RESULTS. — Farshad Asl

The dungeon image helped. "You need to let Maximus go," I stated, my voice stronger now.
"No. Wine? — Jeaniene Frost

You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth. — George Herbert

I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life. — Kaniehtiio Horn

Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all ... — Nicholas Sparks

There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths ... — Hunter S. Thompson

We've all gone through some kind of betrayal, whether it's with a boyfriend or a friend or a family member. That's why this is so relatable to everybody because we all know what it feels like to feel that betrayal. — Cameron Diaz

The self ... can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being, never to share fully in its reality ... you are that superself looking out through only one eye, or using just one finger. — Jane Roberts

Their leader wore a Nazi helmet and had renamed himself Heimlich in honor of the man who ran the SS, not knowing he'd confused the Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choke victims and Heinrich Himmler. — William Kotzwinkle

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift
a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods. — Max Ehrmann

Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated. — Malcolm X

I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him
to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act. — Storm Jameson

Childish certainty that nothing could get him while under the covers wasn't much comfort, but it was a start. — Marybeth Niederkorn