How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?
Virginia WoolfTags: judgement dislike liking
I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?
Jeff LindsayWhen you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
C.S. LewisTags: kindness love injury dislike behavior like good-turns
At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.
Criss JamiTags: truth opinions controversy dislike arguing
Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he had joined those guys and I just stayed on my own. I didn't like it or dislike it. It was just funny that things had turned out that way.
Markus ZusakTags: friends funny dislike interesting like the-way-things-turn-out
The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
Honoré de BalzacI dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
The Man from Archangel
Tags: misanthropy dislike
It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.
Anne BrontëTags: cats men women dogs pets dislike caress
These are the few ways we can practice humility:
To speak as little as possible of one's self.
To mind one's own business.
Not to want to manage other people's affairs.
To avoid curiosity.
To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.
To pass over the mistakes of others.
To accept insults and injuries.
To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.
To be kind and gentle even under provocation.
Never to stand on one's dignity.
To choose always the hardest.
Tags: acceptance selfish humility curiosity mistakes forgiveness difficulty quiet injury gossip humble forgotten dislike insult dignity rejection kind cheerful gentle bossy provocation
Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.
Ben HechtTags: writing write criticism praise writer forgotten dislike habit censure like benefit instruct
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