Valeur Quotes & Sayings

The damage that most people suffer, through the process we refer to as childhood, is from a lack of self-esteem. It's by far the most dangerous epidemic among us. — Erik Valeur

Like so many champions of justice, she possessed empathy in the abstract, but sometimes fell short when confronted with the flesh-and-blood reality. — Erik Valeur

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death. — Annie Dillard

Genuine compassion makes people feel good, but it doesn't tolerate total despair or hopelessness, let alone complicity. — Erik Valeur

It's because those events never really become wounds or scars on the surface, but parts of you deep down inside," he said, answering his own question. "You can't see them with the naked eye, but they nevertheless shape the way you move and everything you say and do - until the day you die. — Erik Valeur

Take more chances than you dare. You'll make more sales than you expect. That's the formula. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Being a single mother without a husband was considered shameful in all — Erik Valeur

When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why? — Jodi Picoult

In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think. — Erik Valeur

In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means. — Loung Ung

Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Like space, the soul is not an expression of eternal constancy but of constant change, and this motion has but one purpose: to continue forward, on the narrow ledge, in the absurd hope that you can escape the Darkness. — Erik Valeur

But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids. — Melinda Gates

Shit's burning so close to you that your ass is on fire. — Erik Valeur

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. — Harvey MacKay

Why is it that the wounds we are afflicted with early in life don't disappear? Whether they are caused by abuse or humiliation or loneliness? — Erik Valeur

I thought part of the idea of having therapy was putting one in touch with his or her feelings. And don't give me all that about transference, and counter-transference and all that. I know what I feel. And it has nothing to do with all that. And you also feel for me. And if you don't know that, then maybe it's you who needs to have therapy to gain a better knowledge of yourself. — Olga Nunez Miret

But leaves don't just fall. They wilt and fade and no longer protect you from the rain. — Erik Valeur

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark. — Jeff Goodell

Finally told her son the gruesome truth about his life. I could have told them about the feeling of not knowing your roots, and about the angst you suffer when you discover you will be forever denied access to it. It's a feeling we know better than anyone else. — Erik Valeur

I think she would have preferred being spared from understanding all the physical signals one hopes the world will notice and reward with caresses. It's the body and its longing that bends the mind and teaches the eye to calculate the distance to one's desires so often out of reach. — Erik Valeur

Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it. — A.D.Y. Howle

She considered compassion the highest virtue, but that night on Obstetric Ward B, it had had a twin sister whose face was invisible to Carla. The suffering women, however, had recognized it immediately: condemnation. — Erik Valeur

The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways. — Henry Rollins

Oh man, there's no shortage of craziness happening on the American landscape right now. I'll turn on the TV every day or check out the newspaper, and there is something to find humor in or something to find absolute fear in. Either way, it makes for good comedy. — Jordan Klepper

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He remembered the Professor's advice to his eager employees during his first year: With us, feelings are described through images, and in the world of television, there are only seven feelings: well-being, Schadenfreude, sentimentality, shock, outrage, disgust, and anger. Nothing else. — Erik Valeur

Bernie Sanders started off at about three percent himself and skyrocketed as word got out about him. — Jill Stein

The people of Ember were just as grubby as the people of Sparks; everyone looked more or less the same. — Jeanne DuPrau

I think that ... it's in the past. Everything becomes history if you are patient enough. And if you don't dig everything up again. — Erik Valeur

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. — Jimmy Carter