June > June's Quotes

“We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.”
― Beth Moore, So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

“Love is the absence of judgment.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“The greatest polution problem we face today is negativity. ”
― Mary Kay Ash

“If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“There are four kinds of people in this world:

•those who make things happen
•those who watch things happen
•those who wonder what happened
•those who don’t know that anything happened!

I knew from a very early age that I wanted to be first on that list.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared”
― Mary Kay Ash

“Everyone wears a sign that says "Make me feel important”
― Mary Kay Ash

“God does not ask your ability
Or your inability.
He asks only your availability.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.”
― Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
― Criss Jami

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“MAKING THE LIE MAKE SENSE:

When denial (his or ours) can no longer hold and we finally have to admit to ourselves that we’ve been lied to, we search frantically for ways to keep it from disrupting our lives. So we rationalize. We find “good reasons” to justify his lying, just as he almost always accompanies his confessions with “good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to judge him.

Allowing the lies to register in our consciousness means having to make room for any number of frightening possibilities:

• He’s not the man I thought he was.
• The relationship has spun out of control and I don’t know
what to do
• The relationship may be over.

Most women will do almost anything to avoid having to face these truths. Even if we yell and scream at him when we discover that he’s lied to us, once the dust settles, most of us will opt for the comforting territory of rationalization. In fact, many of us are willing to rewire our senses, short-circuit our instincts and intelligence, and accept the seductive comfort of self-delusion.”
― Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal

“When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!”
― Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal

“Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
― Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Never judge someone by their relatives.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies