#dislike

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#easy #few #half #harder #out

When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy. ↗

— James Redfield

#energy #beauty

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them. ↗

— Jane Austen

#defects #dislike #education #hatred #misunderstanding

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. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#bossy #cheerful #curiosity #difficulty #dignity

It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#cats #dislike #dogs #men #pets

I already explained this. I don’t like you. True, I don’t like most people, but I especially dislike you. I could start my own religion based on how much I dislike you. ↗

— G.A. Aiken

#hate #religion

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that. ↗

— David Arquette

#business #different #dishonesty #dislike #falsehoods

You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him. ↗

— Robert A. Taft

#get #him #know #really #you

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work. ↗

— Karen Black

#good #good work #i #me #people

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#cannot #celtic #character #countrymen #disliked