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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. -- Simone Weil
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. -- Clarence Day
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. -- George Washington
Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in. -- Junot Diaz
It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it. -- Hulk Hogan
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. -- Ivan Turgenev
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly. -- Benjamin Franklin
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Every time you overhear something hurtful, I want you to do something kind for someone else. -- Suze Orman
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. -- Benjamin Franklin
For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing. -- Carmen Electra
The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends. -- Gloria Steinem
Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful. -- Paula Abdul
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them. -- Liane Moriarty
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing. -- Heather Armstrong
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. -- Sylvia Plath
Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there. -- Joel Osteen
There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true. -- Tracey Emin
Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around. -- Britt Ekland
As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful. -- Rosalind Wiseman
A lot of times, just because people are different, they're judged. I try not to let that concern me. But sometimes it can be hurtful, because I do feel judged sometimes for being a little different. -- Erin Davie
When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice. -- Brene Brown
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate! -- Ivan Turgenev
You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false. -- Avril Lavigne
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break. -- Elton John
Nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous and hurtful as believing that I'm standing on the outside of my life looking in and wondering what it would be like if I had the courage to show up and let myself be seen. -- Brene Brown
Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. -- George Saunders
Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room. -- Laura Wasser
I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation. -- Sammi Hanratty
People live out of either the hurt they feel or the healing Jesus provides. Your parents will never be perfect. And you will never be a perfect parent. But there is a perfect God who, over time, will bring healing to hurtful circumstances. -- Derwin L. Gray
People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read. -- Rick Barry
On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known. -- John Stuart Mill
I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's been a major problem over the years. But obviously, to the young writer that's unfair and it's discriminatory, and it can be very hurtful to one's career. -- Rod Serling
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage. -- Gunter Grass
To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person. -- Brene Brown
When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.' -- Joyce Meyer
Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel. -- Martin Luther
Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong. -- Katherine Jenkins
There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years. -- Carol Vorderman
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!' -- Mae Whitman
Everyone goes through their own journey. Sometimes things can get hurtful. But sometimes too much intrusion of privacy can get to you, but I know that this is something that you cannot avoid. You know, being a woman, there have to be lines drawn somewhere. But I am the kind who accepts that this is my journey and I have to go through some amount of hurt. -- Katrina Kaif
Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults. -- Mitch Albom
Respond with love and kindness even to hurtful treatment. -- Debasish Mridha
Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don't repeat them. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. -- Gautama Buddha
Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them. -- Plutarch
Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person. -- Kathryn Stockett
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. -- John Milton
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature -- Michel de Montaigne
It's hurtful to know that Tommy Glavine won't be in a Braves uniform anymore. -- John Schuerholz
If someone says or does something hurtful, call upon heaven for protection and healing. -- Doreen Virtue
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful. -- Samuel Johnson
To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful. -- Rubye Armorer
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. -- Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies -- Lisa Vanderpump
At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness. -- Russell Simmons
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it." -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is extremely hurtful when women tell me I don't understand or know how they feel. -- Kim Lyons
The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful. -- Mike Norton
Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart. -- Stephen King
Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean. -- Nicholas Sparks
Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them. -- Peter Clewes
When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it. -- Patsy Kensit
How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others. -- June Ahern
We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful. -- Robert Pozen
Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long. -- Lynn Caine
Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do. -- Max Muller
Tempers are temporary, but hateful and hurtful words can be remembered forever. Leave a legacy of love and say only kind things. -- Jarod Kintz
There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances. -- Bree Despain
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health -- Clarence Day
Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful ... -- Rumer Godden
Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I think what scares people about not being normal is being ostracized for not being like other people. And that's hurtful when that happens. -- Erin Davie
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage. -- Aristotle
One day you're gonna ask that to the wrong girl who is really struggling and it's gonna be hurtful to them. And I hate it. -- Chrissy Teigen
I told the tree it was going nowhere in life. It was hurtful, but true. Now, maybe in death it will go somewhere, as furniture. -- Jarod Kintz
I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe. -- Roger Williams
I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful. -- Lamar Odom
Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself as a delightful little man. -- Joshua Malina
Once you squeeze toothpaste out, you can't put it back into the tube. The same is true with our words. Once we say something hurtful, we can't take it back -- LeBron James
A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions. -- R. Alan Woods
I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the oligarchy is hurtful to the majority in Bolivia. -- Evo Morales
I have a skill set that often helps me get through hurtful moments or experiences. However, sometimes when the pain cuts really deep, my normal go-to exercises just won't work. -- Nikki DeLoach
The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding. -- Alain de Botton
... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women. -- Fannie Barrier Williams
The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering. -- Andrew Solomon
I just want an opportunity. If you don't like the audition, don't hire me! But if you don't want to even see me -- that's hurtful. And why? You know nothing about me! -- Jessica Biel
An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes. -- Joseph Addison
It's no coincidence that good words make us feel good and that hurtful or angry words make us feel bad. There is a 100 percent correlation between the words we choose and how we feel. -- Sean Stephenson
I find that half of people I meet are open and want the world to love and be loved, but there are others who are bigoted and hurtful, and want to vote for Trump. -- Garrett Clayton
It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher. -- Prince
I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss. -- Matt Chandler
For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate. -- John Krasinski

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