Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Practical Victim Mentality quotations
I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you.
A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
The discriminations that are found in the Muslim majority countries are more Cultural than Islamic. .... I have always said to the Muslim women, please do not nurture the victim mentality. Stand up for your rights.
Nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere. Ever. They will never succeed.
There's a strong victim mentality in my generation.
I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.
The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because if this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.
If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
A victim mentality is a prolonged form of suicide.
Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.
A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.
Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.
Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.
