Offending Friends Quotes & Sayings

Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself. — Omar Suleiman

It is only very slightly later, when my client's head is sliced off, that I realise I have made an error. My career is finished. — Stanley Donwood

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them. — Uma Thurman

What I learned was this: letting myself be at the mercy of hormones and brain chemicals and emotions can be deadly. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support. — Dalai Lama

I loved him in a way that I knew would never stop, in a way that would hurt forever. — J. Nelle Patrick

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

In the democratic, egalitarian spirit of our day, we hold in suspicion positions of social authority, yet we submit to the power of peers. Social anxiety, peer group pressure, and competition all dictate our lives. Many are more afraid of offending their friends than they are of offending figures of authority. We have moved from a culture based upon hierarchy to a peerarchy. Ironically we flee from relational distinctions and boundaries, yet without these traditions and boundaries we become mired in codependency. — Mark Sayers

If you can show your child what its like to be charming and giving, show your child what love is really all about and show your child unconditional love, show your child caring and compassion and understanding the nonjudgmental and that is what your child will become. — John Assaraf

I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it. — Eve Ensler

No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about ... 'For I tell you ... no man can serve two masters ... ' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer ... Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him! — Keith Green

I think sometimes your worst enemy is inside your head. All your insecurities, your ego, your fears, your expectations. — Luis Gerardo Mendez