“Just because you’ve only been alive for fifteen years doesn’t mean you’re less anything except old. That’s all it means. It doesn’t mean you’re less experienced. It doesn’t mean you’re less intelligent. It doesn’t mean you’re less sensitive. It doesn’t mean you take things less seriously. It’s like, these are younger human beings, meaning don’t, because they’re only ten, start thinking that they don’t know what you’re talking about -because they do. Don’t leave people out in the cold, and don’t talk down to people -don’t. It never works out.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsHumansMeanHuman BeingsTalkingAliveColdTenIntelligentWork OutSensitiveFifteenBeing MeFifteen YearsBeing Mean Author:Judd Nelson
“I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.” ImportantSometimesDespairClaimsAffectedAlteredBeing MeBeing Mean Author:Olympia Dukakis
“Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.” GivingWellsMeanSelfEgoDegreesGiving UpEmptyOvercomingGreedCeaseWell BeingSensitiveAwakeNarcissismPreservationChasingBeing MeBeing MeanCoveting Author:Erich Fromm
“To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.” MeanSpheresWholenessBeing MeInterconnectednessBeing Mean Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn
“I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsMeanDoeSometimesCharacterKidsSchoolSituationLike YouHealthyHigh SchoolAggressionBeing MeBeing MeanLizzy Author:Lizzy Caplan