Madforyarn Quotes & Sayings

To mobilize yourself, decide what you want, determine what will get you what you want, then act - do what will get you what you want most to achieve. — Nido R. Qubein

Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school. — Mark Twain

Stop rehearsing life's failures. Use your beautiful imagination to visualize success. — Cheryl Richardson

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. — Frank A. Clark

I smile, loving how his words feel against my skin. Inside my heart. — Colleen Hoover

Visited the library often to read or reread books he had ignored or misunderstood while at university. The Name of the Rose, for one, and Remembering Slavery, a collection that so moved him he composed some mediocre, sentimental music to commemorate the narratives. He read Twain, enjoying the cruelty of his humor. He read Walter Benjamin, impressed by the beauty of the translation, he read Frederick Douglass's autobiography again, relishing for the first time the eloquence that both hid and displayed his hatred. He read Herman Melville, and let Pip break his heart, reminding him of Adam alone, abandoned, swallowed by waves of casual evil. Six — Toni Morrison

PARANOID PERSONALITY The paranoid defense is a posture developed to cope with excessive shame. The paranoid person becomes hypervigilant, expecting and waiting for the betrayal and humiliation he knows is coming. The paranoid person interprets innocent events as personally threatening and constantly lives on guard. Harry Stack Sullivan described the paranoid as "feeling hopelessly defective." The sources of the paranoid's own sense of deficiency are found elsewhere. It's as if the inner eyes of shaming, contempt and disdain are projected outward. Wrongdoings, mistakes and other instances of personal failure cannot be owned by the paranoid-type personality. They are disowned and transferred from the inner self to others. — John Bradshaw

Well come and stand a little bit closer, breathe in and get a bit higher. You'll ever know what hit you when I get to you! — Savage Garden