Quotes on Hurt Feelings

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won't like you. It may not be easy, but it's essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.

Only Americans can hurt America.

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would argue that not only is it relevant, but that when compassion is lacking, our activities are in danger of becoming destructive. This is because when we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment . When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.