- "Blood is thicker than water."
- "Everything happens for a reason."
- If someone dies the person is "in a better place."
- "You must love yourself before you can love others."
- "If you don't love yourself no one will."
- "Life is too short for..." even if life were indefinite or permanent it would still be good to avoid the nonsense and stuff we claim life is too short for.
- "God only takes the best."
- "Only the good die young." last I checked, everyone dies at some point. Lots of amazing people die too soon but so do lots of murderers and sexual predators.
- "Karma's a bitch!"
- "Don't trust until someone gives you a reason to."
- "Trust can never be restored once it's broken."
- "That person is an animal for doing...." I don't like comparing people who do horrible things to innocent animals.
- "When it rains it pours" - it's all about attitude
- "Kids turn out however their parents bring them up." not necessarily true. It can be true in some cases but not always.
- “Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.” ~G.B. Stern
- “I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.” ~ incorrectly attributed to Meryl Streep as it is said to be words she quoted as words she lives by but it's originally written by José Micard Teixeira.
- This message is inherently contradictory - s/he believes in a world of opposites yet she avoids people with rigid and inflexible personalities. Seems kind of rigid and inflexible to me!That's the opposite of what she claims to believe in so since she believes in opposites wouldn't it make sense to accept rigidity and inflexibility then?
- And she has difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. So she must like animals. If someone else doesn't that's an opposite view and she's not accepting it though she "believes in a world of opposites."
- Another reason I disagree is, I think it's still good to love those who do not love back and smile at people who don't smile back. It's more important to love than to be loved, imo. And still be patient for difficult people. Sometimes those are the ones who need it most. And in my opinion it's not good to look up to those people as role models. We don't have to resort to withholding our own love just because they do. Universal Love is the way to go! But it's ok if people disagree! She can live how she wants! I still love & accept her, contradiction, cynicism and all!
- When people say "to be honest, honestly" or "if I'm being honest" aren't we supposed to generally assume we're being honest with each other? And if not then is someone claiming to be honest really going to lead us to believe the person is really being honest any more than if the person doesn't say "honestly?" Like what's the point? If I think someone is lying I'm still going to think it whether or not that person explicitly claims honesty. I generally assume people are honest and when a person says "if I'm being honest..." it's not going to make me trust that person any more than if the person doesn't say it....
- "Real women have curves" - a real woman is a person with the gender identity of a woman, nothing to do with curves. And how is it ok to destructively criticize a woman's body for being thin but not for being overweight or curvy? And curvy has to do with physique, not weight. A thin girl can be curvy.
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