Famous Quotes & Sayings

Byron Katie

You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.

Byron Katie

When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.

Byron Katie

No one can hurt me - that's my job.

Byron Katie

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

Byron Katie

Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be cause by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. That’s not a possibility. It’s only when I believe a stressful thought that I get hurt. And I’m the one who’s hurting me by believing what I think. This is very good news, because it means that I don’t have to get someone else to stop hurting me. I’m the one who can stop hurting me. It’s within my power.

Byron Katie

Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.

Catherine Deneuve

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

Carlos Zambrano

If I hurt somebody's feelings, I go right to them and talk to them and explain what happens. Sometimes I'm mad at myself because I left a pitch in the middle. It's big when you leave a pitch in the middle. When I make that mistake, it's frustrating for me. I have to think about what I did wrong and go to the next step.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The truth is what hurts

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If only everything hurt as little as a blow to the face.

Caitlin Thomas

[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.

Caleb Carr

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

Caitlin Moran

Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself.

Bryan Clay

Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.

Cathy Freeman

I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.

Cathy Kelly

Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.

Catherynne M. Valente

I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.

Catherynne M. Valente

Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.

Carl Hagelin

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

Carl Hagelin

I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.

Frank Kelly

The people who tend to get hurt while running are those who are just getting started or those who are stepping things up a notch.

We usually shoot a lot better than that from the line. It hurt our chances; no question about that.

We're in a world of hurt and we're not doing enough to get out of it.

William Shakespeare

If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.

Louis C. K.

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.

Kurt Vonnegut

I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.

Kurt Vonnegut

Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

Laura Schlessinger

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

Charles Koch

We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help it.

Charles Koch

The poorest Americans use three time the energy as the percentage of their income as the average American does. This is going to disproportionately hurt the poor. It may make the whole electric grid unstable, depending on how it is enforced. And it does nothing for the climate.

Charles Koch

Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you're on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.