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The Medicine is the Sickness

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people who won’t let me in on the freeway.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s having to let people in on the freeway.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s waking up to 50 assholes pretending to be me.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s waking up feeing like an asshole because I yelled at those assholes.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people who turn the things I say into insipid greeting card messages.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s turning a bunch of ideas into a laundry list.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s that feeling you get when you scratch something new.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s not knowing what’s wrong with someone and all you want to do is make them feel better.

    If there’s one thing I hate it’s knowing that my mind naturally gravitates towards the negative and not being able to stop it.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people who become your friend, to become your friend’s friend.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s being really busy and using that as an excuse to ignore your email.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s having to acknowledge that my feelings are my own, no one else’s. And, my responsibility.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s forgetting that and taking the way I feel out on the world.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people who criticise things, who can’t take criticism.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s going to the same job day-after-day for the same pay.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s not having a job.

    If there’s one thing I hate, it’s not you.

    It’s me.

      “Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence.  It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your life.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr., via Ego is the Enemy

        “Attempting to destroy something out of hate or ego often ensures that it will be preserved and disseminated forever.” ~ Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy

          “When we get angry, we suffer. If you really understand that, you also will be able to understand that when the other person is angry, it means that she is suffering. When someone insults you or behaves violently towards you, you have to be intelligent enough to see that the person suffers from his own violence and anger. But we tend to forget. We think that we are the only one that suffers, and the other person is our oppressor. This is enough to make anger arise, and to strengthen our desire to punish. We want to punish the other person because we suffer. Then, we have anger in us; we have violence in us, just as they do. When we see that our suffering and anger are no different from their suffering and anger, we will behave more compassionately. So understanding the other is understanding yourself, and understanding yourself is understanding the other person. Everything must begin with you.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

            “It feels much better to contribute to spreading love, than to contribute to destroying hate. Because ultimately, hate only exists from a lack of love. Darkness only exists from the absence of light.”

            Apollo Poetry, Good Men Project

              “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ~ Elie Wiesel

                “I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.” ~ Sean Stephenson, Get Off Your “But”

                  “Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you’ll do it again.” ~ Anthony Robbins, Awaken the Giant Within

                    “The Buddha said, ‘Nothing can survive without food.’ This is a very simple and very deep truth. Love and hate are both living phenomena. If we do not nourish our love, it will die and may turn into hate. If we want love to last, we have to nurture it and give it food every day. Hate is the same; if we don’t feed it, it cannot survive.” ~ Thich Nhat Hahn, Savor

                      “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” ~ Nelson Mandela

                        “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” ~ Nelson Mandela

                          “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ” ~ Buddha