“What we practice becomes habit. Societies can repeat destructive collective habits of racism, hatred, and revenge.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“By refusing to participate in the endless cycle of hatred, you can help to heal the wound of the world.”— Phillip Moffitt, twitter.com
“Preferable to accepting one's insignificance is imagining the others hate you.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.”— Emma Forrest, amazon.com
“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, amazon.com
“She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all.”— Rick Yancey, amazon.com
“When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“All hatred is self-hatred. This is why we become so goddamned heartbroken. We cannot lose people; we can only lose ourselves in an idea of them. We decided how we felt about ourselves through them - for better or for worse - so when we perceive that their mindset changes from loving us to loving som…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”— Nelson Mandela, amazon.com
“If nobody hates you, you're doing something wrong.”— Eli Attie, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com