Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.
– Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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- He doesn’t hurt us anymore.-Of course he doesn’t hurt you anymore, I think. You’re not defenseless anymore. – Melanie OShea
- Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Less fear, more courage.Less doubt, more faith.Less talking, more action.Less ignorance, more knowledge. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Just because you have stolen someone’s heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn’t give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
- An ‘Employee of the Month’ is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream-”in that particular month. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Not every single way of saying the right thing is right. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence. – Daniel Clowes
- There is something embarrassing about someone else’s grief. It is hard to know what to do around it. The right answer, always, is hugs. – Adam Gidwitz
- We sing because we can’t speak anymore. Dance is an extension of that – we dance because we can’t speak anymore. – Kristin Chenoweth
- Who knows if you’re alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I’m even alive anymore? – Dominic Riccitello
- It’s not sad that I don’t love you anymore, it’s I can’t love anyone anymore. – Pushpa Rana
- Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there’s Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there’s YouTube. – Lisa Bedrick
- Death was painful, not because people couldn’t see their loved ones anymore, but because they couldn’t communicate with them anymore. – Karen McQuestion
- If you can’t explain why someone should pay attention to what you’re saying, maybe you shouldn’t be saying it. – Dave Burgess
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- Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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- There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. – Laurell K Hamilton
- …that society with its hurtful views on race and class distinction would make it difficult for us to succeed. – Curtis W Jackson
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- It was true-”but it was harsh. And it feels like maybe a harsh truth can be as hurtful as a lie. – Ryan Galloway
- She knew that oftentimes hurtful people were hurting people, so she determined to pray for them all the more. – JEB Spredemann
- Far too often we allow the hurtful words of others to define us. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label. – Eddie Capparucci
- I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful. – Carl R Rogers
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- You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,’ Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true. – Dan Chaon
- The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured. – Rick Warren
- As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. – Jack London
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