Willa Beatrice Brown 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

Why did they all think alike? Typical bourgeois brainwashed homogeneity? How else could this unvarying calculus abouth the worth of one's own kind measured against the lives of others have come about? — Neel Mukherjee

So please, just let me be egocentric and ask you to stay. — Ika Natassa

I'd like to win a championship for the Steelers and for myself to shove down Detroits throat. — Bobby Layne

I heard that I have three ribs, that I have more surgeries than Cher - whatever they say, they say; I know who I am. — Thalia

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something. — Robin Sharma

He opened the first letter, No "Dear Mr. Woods." It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too many letters ripped you to shreds, then closed off 'Sincerely yours. — Randy Alcorn