Trigger Quotes

“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“This process within our brains is a three-step loop. First, there is a cue, a trigger that tells your brain to go into automatic mode and which habit to use. Then there is the routine, which can be physical or mental or emotional. Finally, there is a reward, which helps your brain figure out if this particular loop is worth remembering for the future: THE HABIT LOOP”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

“The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.”
― John Cleese

“The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.”
― Carolyn Spring

“I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.”
― Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness

“Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Whatever is triggering you, is on you.”
― Richie Norton

“Most organised abuser groups call each particular training a “programme”, as if you were a computer. Many specific trained behaviours have “on” and “off” triggers or switches. Some personality systems are set up with an inner world full of wires or strings that connect switches to their effects. These can facilitate a series of actions by a series of insiders. For example, one part watches the person function in the outside world, and presses a button if he or she sees the person disobeying instructions. The button is connected to an internal wire, which rings a bell in the ear of another part. This part then engages in his or her trained behaviour, opening a door to release the pain of a rape, or cutting the person's arm in a certain pattern, or pushing out a child part. So the watcher has no idea of who the other part is or what she or he does. These events can be quite complicated.”
― Alison Miller, Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse

“Failure of your first attempt does not mean you can't be a winner of great battles; it rather means, you must trigger only when your target is in focus.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Tell them to teach them that when they call you nigger to make a rhyme with trigger it makes the gun backfire”
― Ralph Ellison

“If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something traumatic in you, and you'll be harmed by the read of the text because you are still defining yourself through your self-victimization, then you need to see a doctor.”
― Bret Easton Ellis

“I wanted to get angry, this guy pushed me so hard.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Man will find his own structured words,
which will transfigure his into immortal.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Do not do her work for her. Do not build her up in your mind. She's only one woman.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant

“Science is a trigger of changes of civilization.
Religion is the failsafe of science performance.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“We do not start any change. We are part of it.
Something older than us had triggered change.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Labeling is a lifetime trigger”
― Charmaine J Forde

“Psychological trigger codes used to be hidden words embedded in images. But what if the words are now invisible and inaudible and pulsed at you at a frequency that's easily absorbed by your penis?”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“Choose not see things from jealous side point of view. People happiness, joy , success , good relationships will trigger you . They will trigger you to be bitter , petty , hurt and miserable.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Progressing food intolerance that would trigger fatigue and sleepiness was a big feature of my Long COVID symptoms.”
― Steven Magee, Long COVID Supplements

“One of the problems with supplement research is changing the supplement mix or missing a dose can trigger health effects.”
― Steven Magee

“A gun safety instructor once told me that if you pull the trigger you’re going to create a hole somewhere. So, in the choices that we make in life we would be wise to consider the fact that we’re going to create a hole. And therefore we might want to consider where that hole should be and where it shouldn’t. But maybe the most significant thing that we need to consider is that most triggers never need to be pulled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My Heart is my L96A1, my Brain the Trigger, my Words and Deeds the Bullets.”
― Sino Melo

“If adults that were bitten by dogs as children still reacted to dogs with fear, was it crazy to think that such an intense event from my teenage years could live in my body and continue to be triggered by a similar situation?”
― Megan Farison, Dissonance

“Whenever one is exposed to that which goes against a certain belief they hold and it triggers an emotional reaction, they ought to take it as an opportunity to re-examine the belief — preferably along with their entire reality tunnel. Over time people get comfortable with their own convictions, they may become dogmatic in their views and opinions. Anything coming from outside the norm then tends to be feared, judged, rejected, vilified. That is, because it challenges the way they had been leading their lives.

Say if something someone said made you angry, dig deep within your inner being and investigate the reason for your anger. Ask yourself why you are taking it personally. Oftentimes, you see, the impulsive reaction has subconscious roots coming from the part of you that knows that you have no legit reason to think or feel as such.

Other times, it is the awareness of the existence of some degree of truth in what you had seen, heard, or read that irks you. It was Rumi who said: “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

Seeing through our own convictions with impartial eyes allows us to see them under a different and often deeper light, possibly transcending them. You deal with one matter at a time and you do so by observing the thoughts and emotions without ever forgetting you are not them. For like the ocean waves, they are temporary, ephemeral, transient while you remain the generator as well as observer.

It matters not if you fully agree with the different view at the end. Neither is there any need to identify, believe, judge, condemn, or to follow it into oblivion.

But do take the chance to look into yourself. For you will likely end up learning something from the experience — including some self-knowledge. The challenge would either strengthen your argument(s) or offer you a different perspective(s). Perhaps a bit of both if one is lucky.

A confident person does not feel threatened when coming across an opposing view or opinion. Not only do they cause no harm, but the exposure may actually have some benefits.”
― Omar Cherif

“Whenever one is exposed to that which goes against a certain belief they hold and it triggers an emotional reaction, they ought to take it as an opportunity to re-examine the belief — preferably along with their entire reality tunnel. Over time people get comfortable with their own convictions, they may become dogmatic in their views and opinions. Anything coming from outside the norm then tends to be feared, judged, rejected, vilified. That is, because it challenges the way they had been leading their lives.

Say if something someone said made you angry, dig deep within your inner being and investigate the reason for your anger. Ask yourself why you are taking it personally. Oftentimes, you see, the impulsive reaction has subconscious roots coming from the part of you that knows that you have no legit reason to think or feel as such.

Other times, it is the awareness of the existence of some degree of truth in what you had seen, heard, or read that irks you. It was Rumi who said: “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

Seeing through our own convictions with impartial eyes allows us to see them under a different and often deeper light, possibly transcending them. You deal with one matter at a time and you do so by observing the thoughts and emotions without ever forgetting you are not them. For like the ocean waves, they are temporary, ephemeral, transient while you remain the generator as well as observer.

It matters not if you fully agree with the different view at the end. Neither is there any need to identify, believe, judge, condemn, or to follow it into oblivion. But do take the chance to look into yourself. For you will likely end up learning something from the experience — including some self-knowledge. The challenge would either strengthen your argument(s) or offer you a different perspective(s). Perhaps a bit of both if one is lucky.

A confident person does not feel threatened when coming across an opposing view or opinion. Not only do they cause no harm, but the exposure may actually have some benefits.”
― Omar Cherif

“The moment you understand your triggers, the world loses its power to push them.”
― Shamail Aijaz, The Calm Within the Storm: Leading Beyond Ego

“Find out what triggers your unhealthy feelings, and avoid or find healthy ways to cope with them as much as possible!”
― Jamie Margolin, Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It