League Bot Quotes & Sayings

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

It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient — Barack Obama

Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing. — Piet Mondrian

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. — Maya Angelou

I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament. — Isadora Duncan

I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don't feel comfortable about me talking about it. So I don't. — Gina McKee

Have never seen that her religion made any difference in her dress. — George Eliot

This is Seattle. We're supposed to have superior taste. — Maria Semple

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished. — Theodore Roosevelt

The soldier was like that. He was an expert in getting other people to do what he wanted. The only creature that could make the soldier do something he did not want was Midnight, and Midnight did things she did not want only when Whippersnapper wanted something. That put the kitten right at the top of the pecking order. A kitten! — Diana Wynne Jones

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all. — Gloria Steinem

Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine. — Michael Bywater