quotes about Masochistic

last updated: November 28, 2023

The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score.
-- Simon Doonan

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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
-- Tim Ferriss

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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
-- Viktor E. Frankl

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“Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”

Source : Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.276, e-artnow
“The immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed comprehensively, because this country depends on immigrant workers, but we don't have a system that reflects that. Our system is absolutely antiquated.”
“Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.”
“Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.”
“Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.”
“I think that lyrically, 'Safe' is a very positive song: it's very strong; it's about keeping somebody safe and protecting people. I think everybody anywhere in the world can relate to it. I think everybody wants to feel safe; everybody wants to feel protected.”
“War determines not who is right but who is left.”
“all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful”
“The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.”
“Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!”

Source : E. D. Baker (2010). “The Frog Princess”, p.74, A&C Black