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“Emotional dependence is the opposite of emotional strength. It means needing to have others to survive, wanting others to "do it for us," and depending on others to give us our self-image, make our decisions, and take care of us financially. When we are emotionally dependent, we look to others for our happiness, our concept of "self," and our emotional well-being. Such vulnerability necessitates a search for and dependence on outer support for a sense of our own worth.”

“Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.”

Care Hate Love Is Emotion Opposites And Love Don't Care Love And Hate

Author:Kanye West

“With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.”

Care Opposites I Care Personal Relationships Manipulative Complete Opposites Smoothies

Author:Charles Grodin

“The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.”

Care Individual Quality Effects Opposites Access Debate Health Care Improving Obamacare Shameful Degradation Quality Care

Author:Fred Upton

“Don't make your wedding a pleasant memory in this life but a source of misery in the next. Make it an eternally good memory. In trying to have a halal wedding, you might sacrifice many relationships but the opposite might mean sacrificing the only relationship that will matter in the hereafter for a bunch of people who don't even really care about you. Don't make one night the cause of your regret for an eternity.”

“I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Kind Important Care Balance Opposites Overcoming Performers

Author:Erin Davie

“People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch and give up a bloop single than make a bad pitch and get an out.”

People Giving Care Results Too Much Judging Giving Up Opposites I Care

Author:Greg Maddux

“The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them.”

Source: MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated): Including Letters & Biographies – The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi…

“I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.”

Thinking Want Seems Care Opposites Definitions Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I had a back-and-forth where I asked Donald Trump, is it true or false that he said the government should pay for everyone's health care? He said it's false. Listen, within minutes, we put out a video just contrasting what he said there with video of him just a few months earlier saying exactly the opposite.”

Should Said Government Care Pay Minutes Months Trump Opposites Video Health Care Back And Forth True Or False

Author:Ted Cruz

“First of all, there are those who simply don't care for [Bob] Dylan, or at least, don't think he's that great. Some of the former sound very much as if they are afflicted with the kind of contrarianism inevitably bred by cultural orthodoxy - Dylan is overwhelmingly rated a giant and a marvel, the acclamation of whom they feel to be de rigueur; and rather than judge for themselves, they embrace the opposite view.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Firsts Kind Care Sound Views Judging Opposites Embrace Don't Care Former Giants Bob Dylan Orthodoxy

Author:David Bennun

“I often think people on opposite sides of the political spectrum may have similar values around care, around thriving or around independence, or around helping the disadvantaged, but they have different ideologies, different ideas and philosophies about how to go about that. It's important that we start to see each others humanness, while at the same time not losing sight of those differences, views and speeches and actions that do cause harm, that we're clearly taking a stand against.”

“Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.”

Thinking Ideas Care Progress Areas Opposites Yeah Health Care New Ideas

Author:Barack Obama

“The link between domestic policy and international affairs is essential: We cannot say we care about domestic issues and we leave international politics, and the opposite is wrong as well. Both are connected and should be addressed together.”

Should Wells Care Together Issues Policy Essentials Opposites Affair International Connected Links International Affairs Domestic Policy

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.”

People Thinking Doe Enough Shows Care Strong Weak Opposites Vulnerability Strong Enough

Author:Victoria Pratt

“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.”

Care Religious Atheism Opposites Atheist Gentle Agnostic Who Cares Fanatics True Believer Cynic Religious Fanatics Greatest Atheist

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.”

Care Next Stars Waiting Empty Opposites Corners Spots

Book:The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Source: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

“Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Care Imagination Differences Darkness Imagine Thousand Ten Opposites Floating Miraculous Asian

Book:Jesus' Son: Stories

Source: Jesus' Son: Stories

“know that without night there is no day; without lies, no truth;without despair,no hope. Beware above all of hate, but call to its opposite too. For all things have an opposite and, if you choose it, with will and care, you may turn one thing into its reflection.”

Ifs Knows May Care Lying Night Hate Turns One Thing Despair Reflection All Things Opposites You Choose No Hope

Author:David Clement-Davies

“I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute.”

Source: Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice

“I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't care that she smelled bad or was fat or wore clothes unlike everyone else's, she had some weird disconnect with life that kept her constantly bubbling, and you knew she would go blithely through her long horribly boring life thinking every thing was just swell (the opposite of me).”

Thinking Way Kind Long Care Grew Clothes Opposites Boring Superiors Fats Optimistic Clueless Boring Life

Book:Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel

Source: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel

“One time you told me that the opposite of love isn't hate. And I didn't understand that, but I think I do know. Because if you hate someone, you most still care, right? You have to care a little bit; otherwise you would just ignore them and forget they even live. Or lived.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Littles Stills Care Hate Bits Forget Little Bit Opposites One Time

Author:Barry Lyga

“The biggest moments of insecurity come when all self-confidence is lost and you feel like people are watching and judging. It should be the opposite. You should feel like the people who are watching care about you. This is something we can try to give each other – the feeling that eyes signal support, not disdain.”

People Giving Feels Should Trying Self Moments Feelings Eye Care Lost Support Judging Opposites Self Confidence Insecurity Signals Disdain

Author:Miley Cyrus

“Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't care. I don't feel like a weak, insipid sissy. Because right now I know I would save the girl. I know that I would rather risk the planet than let harm befall Eliza Wishart. I would save her in a second. Because I can imagine her and me huddled safe together while the earth falls under evil designs, but I can't imagine the world without her in it.”

Knows World Feels I Can Moments Care Earth Together Fall Girl Evil Felt Imagine Risk Design Planets Right Now Safe Weak Opposites Don't Care Harm Instance I Don't Care Because I Can Insipid Sissy

Author:Craig Silvey

“Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.”

Care Opposites Abuse Claims Foundation Neglect Affirmation Humiliation Foundation Of Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.”

Real Body Care Secret Health Opposites Take Care Your Body Health Care Lifelong Good Health

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images of one another. The research man does something and does not care [exactly] what it is that happens, he measures whatever it is. The inventor wants something to happen, but does not care how it happens or what it is that happens if it is not what he wants.”

Ifs Men Want Doe Happens Care Results Research Opposites Mirrors Operations Confused Chemicals Want Something Examination Inventor Measurement Mirror Image

Author:Reginald Fessenden

“Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.”

Men Wells Care Together Science Quality Known Produce Health Exercise Eating Opposites Working Together Possessing Eating Alone

Author:Hippocrates

“As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.”

Ifs Needs Self Care Fire One Thing Opposites Don't Care Intense Burning I Don't Care Destructive Rebel Tattoo Self Destructive Fire Burning Burning Inside

Author:Megan Fox

“If there is one thing I will never have, it is an eating disorder. I won't have girls - even if it is just one or two who care - thinking that. Because it is a serious sickness, not something to plaster on the cover of a magazine. And I am the opposite. I want girls to love themselves. I want them to feel good about who they areThe thing is, I'm lucky because I was loved. But I have seen so many young women who can't feel good about themselves because they just don't have that love.”

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Author:Kate Hudson

“Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities ... If you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.”