Victim Mindsets Quotes & Sayings

Create to be internally satisfied, not externally praised. — Phil Wohl

I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten
death. — Leo Tolstoy

The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering. — Matthieu Ricard

Here is a piece of metal which has been melted until it has become shapeless. It represents nothing. Nor does it have design, of any intentional sort. It is merely amorphous. One might say, it is mere content, deprived of form." Childan nodded. "Yet," Paul said, "I have for several days now inspected it, and for no logical reason I feel a certain emotional fondness. Why is that? I may ask. I do not even now project into this blob, as in psychological German tests, my own psyche. I still see no shapes or forms. But it somehow partakes of Tao. You see?" He motioned Childan over. "It is balanced. The forces within this piece are stabilized. At rest. So to speak, this object has made its peace with the universe. It has separated from it and hence has managed to come to homeostasis. — Philip K. Dick

If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

Every intelligent being enjoys complexity. — Brenda Laurel

I actually like the collaboration of working with different artists. — Howard Shore

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. — Anton Chekhov

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms. — Ralph Gibson

Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles? — Mason Cooley

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations. — Jeff Bridges

The magic rarely happens within our comfort zone, but outside it, on the ragged, scary edge, where we have to fight like hell to keep from drowning in the unknown. — David DuChemin

With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand ... hopeless from the start. — Sylvia Plath

Selfish people also tend to have victim mindsets ... Their actions plant seeds of loneliness; then they cry upon the blooming. — Steve Maraboli

As I sat in the hotel room, I realized that in fact I had left my heavenly Father again. By allowing myself to become anxious, I had run off from His comforting Presence. When would I learn that I cannot worry and trust God at the same time! I relaxed in my chair and felt at peace again. "Oh, thank You, Father," I said weeping in relief. "Please forgive me for stepping away from You. You are here, You are in that hall. I'll be all right. — Bilquis Sheikh

It had grown cold in the night but he was numb with other weathers. An equinox in the heart, ill change, unluck. Suttree held his face in his hands. Child of darkness and familiar of small dooms. He himself used to wake in terror to find whole congregations of the uninvited attending his bed, protean figures slouched among the room's dark corners in all multiplicity of shapes, gibbons and gargoyles, arachnoids of outrageous size, a batshaped creature hung by some cunning in a high corner from whence clicked and winked like bone chimes its incandescent teeth. — Cormac McCarthy