Michael Wurth > Michael's Quotes

“the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

“Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.”
― Mae West

“I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress? ”
― Mae West

“Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.”
― Mae West

“Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.”
― Mae West

“Problems are not the problem: coping is the problem.”
― Virginia Satir

“Life is not what it's supposed to be.It's what it is.The way you cope with it is what makes the difference”
― Virginia Satir

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
― Ayn Rand