Hurtful quotes
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"Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness."
"Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart."
"At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness."
"I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet."
"I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'"
"Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith."
