“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“Anger is a bodyguard for hurt.”
To be angry is so much more accepted than actually being vulnerable. When our heart is hurt, struggling to find an acceptable way to express it can be challenging. For men it is much more acceptable to show anger. Women are often conditioned not to show the same kind of anger that is ok for men to express. Such gender conditioning around expressing emotions is deeply ingrained.
Yet if it is just a coverup for true hurt, how can this shift?
“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.”
Quote by Denis Waitley – Motivational Speaker 87 years old! (AND… a graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy)
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