It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.
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It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy.
Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, 'You did your thing,' or 'That was inspiring,' you can't really ask for more than that.
The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music.
I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.
All religions and cultures suffer from sources that preach hate against the 'other.' Throughout history some have, tragically, practiced what their sources preached, while some have sought to dismiss or even counteract the hateful words of their sources.
When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don't believe in hating people. It's a retrogressive thing.
Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.
I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.
Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all and it's relaxed me.
Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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