Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.
– Oli Anderson
Related Quotes:
- Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. – Augustine of Hippo
- unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar things – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching. – Mao Zedong
- Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis. – Oli Anderson
- This world is your world but that doesn’t mean you can always stop it from burning. – Oli Anderson
- Dialogue helps us to acknowledge that we see the world not as it is, but as we are. – Oli Anderson
- When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not). – Oli Anderson
- Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them. – Oli Anderson
- Dialogue is about creating awareness through self-observation; it starts from the inside out, not the outside in. – Oli Anderson
- We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can’t rely on words alone. – Oli Anderson
- I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless. – Oli Anderson
- The final lesson is that ‘reality’ is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there. – Oli Anderson
- Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the -˜best’ and only way to do so isthrough action. – Oli Anderson
- If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed. – Oli Anderson
- There are two types of ‘busy’: 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real. – Oli Anderson
- If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we canlearn from it then we will never be truly defeated. – Oli Anderson
- Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct. – Oli Anderson
- See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation. – Oli Anderson
- Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life. – Oli Anderson
- Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not. – Oli Anderson
- Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide. – Oli Anderson
- Idealism + Inaction = Depression – Oli Anderson
- Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time andplace. – Oli Anderson
- If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others. – Sri Chinmoy
- No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware! – Dada Bhagwan
- Is the healing process the writing or the reading of that writing?What are we all healing from? Ourselves?What are we all healing towards? Ourselves? – Michal Coret
- Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. – Clancy Martin
- We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves. – Vironika Tugaleva
- Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others. – Orrin Woodward
- When you don’t come closer to the goal and don’t make everyday steps for achieving it, we will not get the results we inwardly set out to attain – Sunday Adelaja
- The door to your heart opens inwardly. Only you can open it. – Dragos Bratasanu
- Life reality tells us that to grow physically, you first need to grow inwardly – Sunday Adelaja
- if… says: ‘Do not be greedy, be generous’, you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity – Idries Shah
- It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Tearless grief bleeds inwardly – Christian Nestell Bovee
- Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction…What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT – John Paul Warren
- The degree of freedom we enjoy outwardly is a reflection of the degree of love we cultivate inwardly. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Let us choose one another as companions!Let us sit at each other’s feet!Inwardly we have many harmonies – think notThat we are only what we see. – Elif Shafak
- Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.- MATTHEW 7:15 – SG Holster