Vicious Circle Quotes

“If we suffer from dependent happiness, we are caught up in a vicious circle of expectation and deception. Constantly seeking more and never feeling truly satisfied makes people crabby and edgy instead of finding a skyline to living up to peace of mind. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.”
― James Richardson, Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms

“McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)—must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as weak sisters. Obama should not fire the serially insubordinate general, they reasoned, because that would undermine the mission in Afghanistan, and if that happens, then Obama would be further weakened.

So the commander in chief can be bad-mouthed as weak by the military but then he can't punish the military because that would make him weak? It's the same sort of pass-the-Advil vicious circle reasoning the military always uses.”
― Maureen Dowd

“George was full of hatred. Of his own weakness and stupidity, of his magic, of the stubbornness and the pride of Beatrice and Marit, and, last of all, hatred of Dr. Gharn, who had started it all.
But the hatred swayed to pity. Then to hopelessness. Then back to anger.
Every once in a great while, he felt a moment of peace, usually when he caught a glimpse of Beatrice and Marit together.
He loved them both in different ways. But that could not be.
He turned away, and the cycle began again.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Princess and the Hound

“One aspect of DID is the PTSD suffered by some of the alters. PTSD is similar to Panic Attacks in that once turned on, the anxiety is fed into a vicious cycle.”
― David Yeung

“Overwhelmed, she surrendered to impending motherhood, terrorized by fears and doubts, reflecting about her own mother whom she saw as an agent of trauma transferal and as the ever-expanding root in a vicious female circle.”
― Laura Gentile, Within Paravent Walls

“Everyone suffers, we're all caught in a vicious circle of anguish and distress, passed on from abused generation to abused generation. The only way out is to recognise the abuse, and step away from it.”
― Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook

“Johnny it's Persephone Alcmedi. I..."
"Hey Red."
That threw me. My hair's dark dark brown.
"Red "
"I've decided I'm going to call you Red from now on."
"All right. Why "
He snickered in a very masculine way and lowered his voice.
"Cause I like the idea of the big bad wolf visiting you and Grandma.”
― Linda Robertson

“(musicians always make straight for the piano in anybody’s house, unlike writers, who can ignore a typewriter in the same room forever.)” -- margaret case harriman”
― Margaret Harriman

“It hapens very often that parents think they are worred about the progress a boy is making. they do not realise that all boys are numskulls with o branes which is not surprising when you look at the parents really the whole thing goes on and on and there is no stoping it it is a vicious circle.”
― Geoffrey Willans

“There is a great need to be needed. Remember, you feel good whenever you are needed. Sometimes, even if it brings misery to you, even then you love to be needed.”
― Osho, The Empty Boat: Talks on the Sayings of Chuang Tzu

“Soy uno de esos lectores tan bulímicos que se avergüenzan de ello y acogen con alegría cualquier motivo honorable, profesional, por ejemplo, para saciar su vicio”
― Emmanuel Carrère, Il est avantageux d'avoir où aller

“Some solutions are seeds of some problems.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You're walking into the garden little girl with your belly just rumblin' for an apple."
"My belief happen to be other than your own but I've always thought the Garden of Eden story would have been much better if Eve wasn't portrayed as such a mindless character manipulated by suggestion. I mean if she were a little bolder more resourceful and confident she and Adam might've had snake for dinner instead.”
― Linda Robertson

“my boss said, "you have a future. but it looks a lot like your past”
― Darcie Wilder, Literally Show Me a Healthy Person