Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes

It's okay to forgive yourself immediately and for good.

Carolyn Hax

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• I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Business
  • Control
  • Lost

• Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Remember
  • I Can
  • Shots

• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Positive

• It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Truth

• In the Far East, it's very normal for people to wear masks in flu season. I don't know if I'd ever do that, though, because I don't like having things on my face.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Face
  • Flu

• There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • People
  • Great
  • Stress

• Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
  • Country
  • Society
  • Talking

• There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

  

  Nadeem Aslam
  • Prayer
  • Satan
  • Faithful

• The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Standards

• Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Pearls
  • String
  • Sweatshirt

• Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Repentance

• (Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • Place
  • Grief
  • Deal

• I don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Sound
  • Vintage
  • Sonic Youth

• We're very positive. The company has made good inroads into the networking industry.

  

  Chris Chaney Jane's Addiction
  • Positive
  • Company
  • Made

• It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Mistake

• The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Evil
  • Dark
  • Philosophy

• There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Power
  • History
  • Voluntarily

• So much of our society as a whole is gearing us to maximize our salary or bonus. Basically, we just think in terms of money. Or, if not money, then, if you're in academia, it's prestige. It's a different kind of currency. And there's this unmeasured dimension of all jobs, which is whether it's improving the world.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • World
  • Different
  • Kind

• On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.

  

  George Clooney
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Father

• It's okay to forgive yourself immediately and for good.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Forgiving