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Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.

~ Steve Maraboli

Steve Maraboli Agreement With Reality Changing Inspirational Labels Letting Go Life Motivational

I think the very word stalking implies that you're not supposed to like it. Otherwise, it would be called 'fluffy harmless observation time'.

~ Molly Harper

Molly Harper Humor Labels Stalking

The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential.... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men's minds.

~ Walpola Rahula

Walpola Rahula Buddhism Labels Names Philosophy Prejudice Prejudices Religion Sectarianism Tolerance Truth

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

~ Karen Marie Moning

Karen Marie Moning Actions Labels Promises Reality Silence Soul Truth Words

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

~ Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters Doctrine Dogma Heresy Labels Orthodoxy Religion Sainthood Stigma

Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.

~ Marty Rubin

Marty Rubin Identity Labels Nationality Race Religion Stereotypes The Self

If there’s anything I’ve learned from polyamory, it’s that the quickest way to destroy a relationship is to try to make it into something it’s not, to force it into a box that it doesn’t really fit in, and to slap labels on something and assume that those labels give the relationship value. No, no, and no. What you end up with is damaged goods in a mislabeled package that end up absolutely where you didn’t want to send the damn thing in the first place.

~ Page Turner

Page Turner Labels Polyamory Relationships

Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.

~ Richard Peck

Richard Peck Best Life Fear Haters Jerks Labels Projecting

Before label yourself and before you decide that there is something irreparably wrong with your thoughts or emotions, ask yourself: “Do I have a caring, unconditionally loving best friend in myself?” If the answer is “No,” then you will not find the solution to your suffering until you address this serious, life-threatening absence of self-compassion. Self-love is not a dinner mint. Self-love matters. Self-love saves lives.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Vironika Tugaleva Friendship Healing Labels Mental Health Self Acceptance Self Compassion Self Love Suffering

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

~ Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman Labels People

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

~ Janet Fitch

Janet Fitch Labels People

People don't want other people to be people.

~ Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe Labels People Selfishness

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

~ Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman Believe In Yourself Complicated Deed Evil Good Labels Name People

I don't subscribe to labels. Unless I'm labeling other people.

~ Gaby Dunn

Gaby Dunn Labels People

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Control Controlling Definition Freedom Freeing Goals Idea Ideas Label Labeling Labels Opportunities People Possibilities Release Releasing Unleash Vision

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Winston S. Churchill Labels Names War

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

~ Raquel Cepeda

Raquel Cepeda America Foreign Freedom Freedom Of Choice Freedom Of Thought Home Homeland Identity Labels New York City Race Racial Constructs Racism Self Awareness United States

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Gentry George Cooper Humour Labels

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

~ Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Labels Politics

Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The fact that categories invariably leak and can never contain all the relevant existing things does not render them useless, only limited. Categories like “woman,” “butch,” “lesbian,” or “transsexual” are all imperfect, historical, temporary, and arbitrary. We use them, and they use us. We use them to construct meaningful lives, and they mold us into historically specific forms of personhood. Instead of fighting for immaculate classifications and impenetrable boundaries, let us strive to maintain a community that understands diversity as a gift, sees anomalies as precious, and treats all basic principles with a hefty dose of skepticism.

~ Gayle S. Rubin

Gayle S. Rubin Categorization Diversity History Identity Labels Lesbian Politics Society Transsexual Woman

When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.

~ Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus Compliments Control Endearments Labels Names Women

We give people political labels, sexual labels, and religious labels. But in the process, we strip them of their individuality and complexity. Prejudice is pre-judging. It's assuming that bad stories end badly, but Jesus is in the business of turning bad beginnings into happily ever afters....God cannot give up on you. It's not in His nature. His goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life. All you have to do is turn around. All you have to do is crash the party!

~ Mark Batterson

Mark Batterson Change God Labels Prejudice Stereotyping

If you haven't proclaimed it in your own life, do it now. Say, I am an artist.

~ Teresa R. Funke

Teresa R. Funke Art Artists Entrepreneurship Labels Passion Proclamation Titles Trust

Who are you without your labels and attachments to the issues you are passionate about? Remove the emotions, remove the beliefs and associations, and simply focus on the rational and practical applications that promote peaceful progression.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Alaric Hutchinson Attachment Attitude Consciousness Daily Life Emotions Growth Inner Peace Inspirational Labels Letting Go Opinion Peace Pratical Life Psychology Releasing Resentment Releasing The Past Spiritual Values In Life Wisdom Zen

I want topeel away all the labelsI had once given to othersand place themupon the fabricof my own identity.They have reflected back to me,everything that I refuseto See in myself.

~ Meraaqi

Meraaqi Acceptance Divine Trouble Identity Insight Inspirational Labels Literature Love Meraaqi Poem Poems Poetic Poetry Psychology Quote Quotes Reflections On Life Self Love Spiritual

No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a moment are quickly left behind. Imperialism consolidated the mixture of cultures and identities on a global scale. But its worst and most paradoxical gift was to allow people to believe that they were only, mainly, exclusively, white, or Black, or Western, or Oriental. Yet just as human beings make their own history, they also make their cultures and ethnic identities. No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on their separation and distinctiveness, as if that was all human life was about. Survival in fact is about the connections between things; in Eliot’s phrase, reality cannot be deprived of the “other echoes [that] inhabit the garden.” It is more rewarding - and more difficult - to think concretely and sympathetically, contrapuntally, about others than only about “us.” But this also means not trying to rule others, not trying to classify them or put them in hierarchies, above all, not constantly reiterating how “our” culture or country is number one (or not number one, for that matter).

~ Edward Said

Edward Said Connections Culture Humanity Imperialism Labels Survival

We aren't human.Yes. We. Are. His voice turns fierce. I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.

~ N.k. Jemisin

N.k. Jemisin Alienation Caste Caste System Classification Humanity Labeling Labels Oppression Outcast Outcasts Taxonomy

As a citizen of the world, I will not confine myself within the gates of one nation or religion. I will not identify with only one species, sex, class or race; for I am a complete being, and that means that I embrace all of humanity, all of nature, every star and universe within the greater universe as a part of me. If we were all created in the image of God, and his love is unconditional, then why can't we love all living things with the same eyes as God? How can anybody say that one race is more superior than another, when we were all created in God's reflection?

~ Suzy Kassem

Suzy Kassem Affiliations All Living Things All Men Were Created Bias Citizen Class Complete Being Creator Embrace Identity Equality Fairness Global Citizen God God S Eyes God S Reflection Human Humanity Inequality Inferior Inferiority Complex Justice Labels Love Nation Nature Race Racism Religion Religion And Science Sex Species Spirituality Star Stars Superior Suzy Kassem Think Thought Unconditional Love Universal Universe World World Citizen

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.

~ Michael J. Cohen

Michael J. Cohen Bias Ecology Health Labels Nature Psychology Stories

To choose not to be part of a team or religion does not make me non-religious; for my religion is Truth and I am very much in love with God. I do not need to align myself with a specific messenger if I already understand God’s message. And the way I think is not considered ‘New Age’, since common sense is not new. So long as you act and speak with love and truth in you, and are good to your fellow man — in that you treat everybody as you would want yourself to be treated, your heart will stand by God regardless of the label you have assigned to your mind.

~ Suzy Kassem

Suzy Kassem Being Different Being Good Common Sense Faith Fellow Human Fellow Humans Fellow Man God God S Message Good Goodness Goodwill Heart Labels Love Meek Messenger Mind Neighbords New Age Non Religious Nonreligious Pure Heart Pure Hearted Religion Religious Speak Team Thinking Different Truth Understand Wise

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

~ David W. Earle

David W. Earle Change Chaos Communication Dysfunctional Family Judgement Labels Love Recovery

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Beyond Comprehension Cosmos Earth Fools Labels World

The World is quick to label you, but it will take ages to take a stand!

~ Avijeet Das

Avijeet Das Common Man Common Man S Plight Labels Meaning Of Life Quotes Stand Up Struggle For Life Struggle Strength Character Take A Stand World

I do not subscribe to the abuse victim or survivor labelling mentality. I have experienced every kind of abuse imaginable and I am and always have been the most happy-go-lucky, positive and life affirming person around. Your labels do not serve you, so don't use them as an excuse to be miserable. You have a beautiful life to live, so accept the beauty and start living.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Miya Yamanouchi Abuse Courage Inspirational Labelling Labels Motivational Survivor Victim Victim Mentality

Do not settle for labels that presume you will never heal. Believe in yourself. Find a tribe who understands and believes in you too. Don't ever give up.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Vironika Tugaleva Believe In Yourself Community Courage Heal Yourself Healing Labels Self Healing Tribe

Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.

~ Oli Anderson

Oli Anderson Communication Dialogue Ego Human Beings Labels Points Of View Reality Social Progress

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

~ William Gibson

William Gibson Fashion Labels Social Commentary Society Trends

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

~ Nathan Filer

Nathan Filer Labels Mad Mental Illness Psychology Schizophrenia

YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE WEAKAllow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling. Notice any labels you attach to crying or feeling vulnerable. Let go of the labels. Just feel what you are feeling, all the while cultivating moment-to-moment awareness, riding the waves of “up” and “down,” “good” and “bad,” “weak” and “strong,” until you see that they are all inadequate to fully describe your experience. Be with the experience itself. Trust in your deepest strength of all: to be present, to be wakeful.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn Crying Experience Feeling Good And Bad Labels Meditation Mindfulness Moment To Moment Awareness Present Riding The Waves Strength Strong Trust Up And Down Vulnerable Wakeful Weak Weak And Strong

I do not subscribe to the abuse victim or survivor mentality. I have experienced every kind of abuse imaginable and I am and always have been the most happy go-lucky, positive and life affirming person around. Your labels do not serve you, so don't use them as an excuse to be miserable. You have a beautiful life to live, so accept the beauty and start living.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Miya Yamanouchi Abuse Inspirational Labels Motivational Past Resilience Strength Victim
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