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No person or thing hurting you is worth you hurting yourself
Sep 29, 2025
Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself.
If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.
I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.
I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.
I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.
“This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you,” he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he was right. Worse than the boil was the stuff that came out of it. What got to me, and got to him even worse, was the stench, which was unbearable, and unlike anything I had come across before. It was, I thought, what evil must smell like - not an evil person but the wicked ideas that have made him that way. How could a person continue to live with something so rotten inside? And so much of it!
You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.
I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.
When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.
I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.
When you have a good heart: You help too much. You trust too much. You give too much. You love too much. And it always seems you hurt the most.
But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.
Forgive those who have hurt you.
Sometimes you have to forget and forgive. Forgive them for hurting you and forget that they exist!
I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get rid of dinner. Of course, by then, throwing up was the only way I knew how to deal with fear. That paradox would begin to run my life: to know that what you are doing is hurting you, maybe killing you, and to be afraid of that fact--but to cling to the idea that this will save you, it will, in the end, make things okay.
I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry.
Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?
The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.
The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens - even if you don't own a gun yourself.
I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.
I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much (sic) cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.
I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.
You don't ever really let go, though. You don't stop. You don't stop hurting, you don't stop loving. It doesn't go away, you just keep living and eventually things get pushed into the background of your life so it's not consuming you every day. It still hurts, you still miss that person. And then one day you know you're okay.
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Sorry for hurting you, she said right in my ear, but it wasn't really an apology, because you don't bite someone's earlobe to tell them you're sorry.
When you walk into the presence of people who calibrate at the very highest energy levels, just being in their energy field, everything that is diseased or in disharmony is healed. When you bring a higher and a more loving energy to the presence of disorder or disharmony or disease, you are really bringing a healing energy. And that's what healing is involved with: It's no longer allowing yourself to wallow around in a process in which you tell yourself that you don't have the capacity to be able to transcend whatever it is that's bothering you or hurting you or killing you.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.
Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.
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