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#1

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: ambition, bullying, character, moral-courage

1037 likes

#2

“If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.”
― Taylor Swift

tags: bullying, humor, inspirational, people, song, song-writing, taylor-swift

1087 likes

#3

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
― Michael J. Fox

tags: abuse, bullying, courage, dignity, saving-milly, self-esteem, strength

1233 likes

#4

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
― Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

tags: bullying, dissent, moral-courage, protest

1208 likes

#5

“Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: bullying, moral-courage

905 likes

#6

“No, you don't know what it's like
When nothing feels all right
You don't know what it's like
To be like me
To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one's there to save you
No, you don't know what it's like
Welcome to my life”
― Simple Plan

tags: bullying, simple-plan, welcome-to-my-life

313 likes

#7

“Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?”
― Magenta Periwinkle, Cutting Class

tags: bullying, coming-of-age, cutting, cutting-class, first-love, geeks, goth, love, magenta-periwinkle, nerds, sentimental-bulls-t, teen-agnst, weirdo, weirdos, young-adult

295 likes

#8

“Life is a ﬁght, but not everyone’s a ﬁghter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.”
― Andrew Vachss, Terminal

tags: bullies, bullying

221 likes

#9

“People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

tags: bullies, bullying, hurt, love, people, self-esteem

333 likes

#10

“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.”
― Thomas M. Cirignano, The Constant Outsider: Memoirs of a South Boston Mechanic

tags: boston, boston-harbor, boston-history, bully, bullying, castle-island, cirignano, discrimination, dorchester, drinking-and-driving, fitting-in, forced-busing, gas-shortage, irish-mob, italian, memoir, murder, nonfiction, osracism, south-boston, southie, true-crime, whitey-bulger

221 likes

#11

“If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”
― Taylor Swift

tags: bullying, inspirational

524 likes

#12

“A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: adaptation, anger, attitude, bullied, bully, bullying, confidence, confidence-and-attitude, encouragement, growth, inspirational, introvert, loneliness, motivational, outcast, pain, youth

277 likes

#13

“Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.”
― Zack W. Van

tags: adversity, bullying, strength, truthful, weakness

161 likes

#14

“Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

tags: bullying, ellen-degeneres, hope, inspirational, life

149 likes

#15

“He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had to torment him; he was too fat, too ugly, too disgusting. But the real problem was simply that he existed, and every reminder of his existence was a crime.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

tags: bullying

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#16

“Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.”
― Karen Mueller Coombs, Bully at Ambush Corner

tags: bullies, bullying, family-relationships, girls-who-bully, music, sibling-relationships, viola

139 likes

#17

“With ignorance comes fear- from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance.”
― Kathleen Patel, The Bullying Epidemic-the guide to arm you for the fight

tags: bullying, lgbt, resources

149 likes

#18

“They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attention. They will hate you when people in their life like you. They will hate you if you worship a different version of their God. They will hate you if you are spiritual. They will hate you if you have courage. They will hate you if you have an opinion. They will hate you when people support you. They will hate you when they see you happy. Heck, they will hate you while they post prayers and religious quotes on Pinterest and Facebook. They just hate. However, remember this: They hate you because you represent something they feel they don’t have. It really isn’t about you. It is about the hatred they have for themselves. So smile today because there is something you are doing right that has a lot of people thinking about you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: abuse, abusive-people, accomplishments, beauty, beotch, bitter-women, blamers, blaming, bringchangetomind-com, bullies

323 likes

#19

“REMEMBER THE LOTUS FLOWER

Great people will always be mocked by those
Who feel smaller than them.
A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.
A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.
A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song
At the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker.
Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower.
Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud,
It does not allow the dirt that surrounds it
To affect its growth or beauty.
Be that lotus flower always.
Do not allow any negativity or ugliness
In your surroundings
Destroy your confidence,
Affect your growth,
Or make you question your self-worth.
It is very normal for one ugly weed
to not want to stand alone.
Remember this always.
If you were ugly,
Or just as small as they feel they are,
Then they would not feel so bitter and envious
Each and every time they are forced
To glance up at magnificently
Divine YOU.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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#20

“If everyone could spend some time self analysing, spend some quiet time with nothing to do and nowhere to go, then without a doubt the world would be an infinitely better place to live and play. It would probably be the cause of the end of bullying, teen suicide, anxiety, depression, stress, and fear and the start of a more genuine and authentic world. I have found that my tranquillity and peacefulness grew significantly stronger as I began to live comfortably with my desires and cravings.”
― Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

tags: authenticity, bullying, desire, distraction, happiness, know-thyself, mindfulness, sex, solitude, suicide

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#21

“All victimhood is ego and is not spiritually inspired”
― Frank Healy, The Ultimate Guide To Healing Your Past

tags: abuse-recovery, abuse-survivors, bullying, posstruamatic-stress-disorder

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#23

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: black-and-white-thinking, evil, good, good-and-evil

2198 likes

#24

“Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: cruelty, impact

1086 likes

#25

“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

tags: august-1914, ignorance, prejudice, tolerance

1134 likes

#26

“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

643 likes

#27

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: evil, injustice, justice, morality

597 likes

#28

“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.

Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: evil, good, heart, religion

658 likes

#29

“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Двести лет вместе

tags: limits-of-power, nothing-left-to-lose, tyranny

512 likes

#30

“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

tags: attitude, contentment

353 likes

#31

“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: career, corporate, vocation

363 likes

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