Perhaps the most telling revelation in the book is the author’s discovery that sociopaths often use one particular emotion...It’s the ultimate empathic emotion called pity. If you pity someone you let them get away with anything.
By teaching a child disrespect and hate for people different from him/herself, parents impair their child's healthy emotional development and hold him/her back from developing a complete image of diversity the world offers.
The insidious pattern of hate and tragedy brings to mind the old adage that it’s too late to shut the barn door after the horse has run away.
Said hypothesis claims that the way we think about sex is linked back to millennia of a shared and common experience...and that would be sex.
America's government may be deeply infiltrated and corrupted by big business, but Britain's system does not even have the coherent artifice of accountable and electable government.
I got off the bus and slowly walked across the street on route to the hospital. It was a cold, dreary evening and snow was everywhere and my mother was dead.
The verdict is in: thirty days in jail plus three hundred hours of community service, counseling and a $10,000 fine.
I was happy to be there, but detested the reason why. Unless one has lost a child, no amount of writing or talking can adequately explain the hollow shell of a parent left behind.
...explains why people like Paris Hilton and the entire Kardashian family is famous, as well as many others. They've done absolutely nothing, contributed only their unrealistic expectation of beauty, and yet they're given millions of dollars every year...
I think of them as the ghosts of my soul. They visit me often in these sleepless hours. They are all the loved ones I miss and admired.