
263A kind word and forgiveness is better than a charitable deed followed by
hurtful [words]: —
Muhammad A.S. Abdel Haleem

Calling anyone
hurtful names is ... bullying.
Hating and abusing someone ... is bullying.
All Bullying is harmful & wrong! —
Timothy Pina

You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little
hurtful but perhaps true. —
Dan Chaon

I try to create businesses that I think are not
hurtful. —
Russell Simmons

It's loneliness that makes us terrible and
hurtful human beings. —
Nina Berkhout

Love is never
hurtful; It's never about forgetting who you are, it's about exploring yourself more. —
Ankita Singhal

She knew that oftentimes
hurtful people were hurting people, so she determined to pray for them all the more. —
J.E.B. Spredemann

There's a difference between people who do
hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances. —
Bree Despain

A true friend will never lead you to do something
hurtful towards yourself or others but will help out with good things towards you —
Timothy Pina

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions. —
Michael Bassey Johnson

Sometimes, questions are more
hurtful than insults. —
Mitch Albom

She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet,
hurtful ache ... —
Stephen King

Vicious actions are not
hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are
hurtful. —
Benjamin Franklin

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more
hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. —
Seneca.

I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are
hurtful. —
Lamar Odom

The useful is the noble and the
hurtful is the base —
Plato

Not all truths hurt. And not all that is
hurtful is truthful. —
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain. —
Jewel

It is extremely
hurtful when women tell me I don't understand or know how they feel. —
Kim Lyons

Now she understood how you can copyedit your own life in order to delete the
hurtful truth. —
Elaine Hussey

Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry. —
Michael Bassey Johnson

I am accountable for every lie that I tell, but I am also accountable for the effects of every harsh truth I deliver. —
Richelle E. Goodrich

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some
hurtful self-questioning. —
Sylvia Plath

Sometimes the most
hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies —
Lisa Vanderpump

Sticks & stones may break your bones &
hurtful words can destroy more than you know! —
Timothy Pina

I'd been hurt, yes - but I'd never meant to become
hurtful. I didn't want to close down anyone but myself. —
David Levithan

When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided. —
Shannon L. Alder

We don't take a macro view ... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or
hurtful. —
Robert Pozen

Then we fucked so that we could pretend that nothing
hurtful had just happened. —
Junot Diaz

Lots of
hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them. —
Liane Moriarty

Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be
hurtful. Make people do bad things. —
Augusta Scattergood

Respond with love and kindness even to
hurtful treatment. —
Debasish Mridha

Quite often good things have
hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage. —
Aristotle.

Riches for the most part are
hurtful to them that possess them. —
Plutarch

Widow" is a harsh and
hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long. —
Lynn Caine

It's
hurtful to know that Tommy Glavine won't be in a Braves uniform anymore. —
John Schuerholz

Sin is not
hurtful because it is forbidden,
but it is forbidden because it is
hurtful. —
Benjamin Franklin

Every time you overhear something
hurtful, I want you to do something kind for someone else. —
Suze Orman

All other knowledge is
hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature —
Michel De Montaigne

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more
hurtful than anything that bleeds. —
Laurell K. Hamilton

Nothing can be more
hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith. —
Mahatma Gandhi

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and
hurtful to the heart. —
Stephen King

If someone says or does something
hurtful, call upon heaven for protection and healing. —
Doreen Virtue

I think what scares people about not being normal is being ostracized for not being like other people. And that's
hurtful when that happens. —
Erin Davie

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons. —
Michael Bassey Johnson

Life is really weird, I thought. It's not just bad people who spread misery - even pretty things can be
hurtful. So hard to understand —
Nujood Ali

Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find
hurtful. —
Gautama Buddha

You can set a boundary with your words when you are honest and when you establish a consequence for another's
hurtful actions. —
Henry Cloud

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or
hurtful. —
Carl R. Rogers

A
hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. —
Simone Weil

Spiritual enlightenment is the ultimate goal for all of humanity, not just a chosen few. Be helpful, not
hurtful —
L.J. Vanier

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too
hurtful. —
Barbara Park

One day you're gonna ask that to the wrong girl who is really struggling and it's gonna be
hurtful to them. And I hate it. —
Chrissy Teigen

Use no
hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly. —
Benjamin Franklin

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never
hurtful. —
Samuel Johnson

I believe love to be
hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good. —
Napoleon Bonaparte

Gossip is one thing,
hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean. —
Nicholas Sparks

I practise selective deafness to
hurtful remarks. —
Scott Lynch

...that society with its
hurtful views on race and class distinction would make it difficult for us to succeed. —
Curtis W. Jackson

To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is
hurtful. —
Rubye Armorer

A kind word and forgiveness is better than a charitable deed followed by
hurtful words: God is self-sufficient and forbearing. —
Anonymous

Study the
hurtful patterns of your life.
Then don't repeat them. —
Yasmin Mogahed