Jodee Blanco · 288 pages
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“What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“The hardest thing about being an outcast isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants. After a while, it backs up into your system like stagnant water and turns toxic, poisoning your spirit. When this happens, you don't have many choices available. You can become a bitter loner who goes through life being pissed off at the world; you can fester with rage until one day you murder your classmates. Or, you can find another outlet for your love, where it will be appreciated and maybe even returned.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“Am I going to be this way for the rest of my life, always waiting for something bad to happen? Will I never truly be able to trust anyone? I worry that when I'm older, I'll be so afraid that people won't like me that I'll have trouble believing it when they actually do.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“عندما يكون المرء ضحية أيّ نوع من التعسف ؛ يمكن أن يفعل أحد أمرين، يمكنه تعلّم كيفيّة تحويل الألم إلى غاية وإحداث فرق في العالم، أو يمكنه السماح له باخماد النور في داخله”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“I now realize what Dorothy means in the final scene from The Wizard of Oz, when she says that if you have to look beyond your front door for your heart's desire, perhapsit was never there to begin with. Maybe, like Dorothy, I should embrace the love right in front of me and not search for some elusive dream that never mattered in the first place.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“The hardest part about being an outcast, isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“يميل الناس إلى اعتبار سرعةالتأثر بأنها أمر سيئ. ولكن هذا غير صحيح . تذكرنا الحساسية بإنسانيتنا”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“لن أسمح لنفسي بإن أكون رهينة ذكرياتي المؤلمة”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“لا يمكن أن يتهرب المرء من ذاته . يمكنه تجاهلها ولكن لا يمكن التهربّ ابدًا”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“أي شخص اختار أن يكون مختلفًا كان عرضةً للمضايقة”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were 'different'. It is also a celebration of the 'inner outcast' in all of us, and a humble attempt to inspire tolerance, understanding, and acceptance." the intro from the author”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“يمكنني تحقيق أي شيء إن بذلت جهدًا”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“يمكنك أن تصبح وحيدًا وتمضي قدمًا في حياتك غاضبًا على العالم أجمع ؛ يمكنك أن تسنشيط غضبًا إلى أن يأتي اليوم الذي تقتل فيه زملاءك . أو يمكنك إيجاد مخرجًا لحبك حيث سيُقدر حبك وتكون محبوبًا بالمقابل”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“لا أدري لمَ علينا حفظ دفتر يوميات حول أمور سنكون على الأرجح بحال أفضل إنْ نسيناها.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“....stood there and watched and didn't do a thing to help me.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“لم يربط الناس دائمًا الواقع بالحزن وكأن من المفروض أن يكون الجميع تعساء”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“لا يُمكن إنتقاء ما أنت عليه في هذه الحياة ولكن يُمكنكَ أن تُقرر ما ستُصبح عليه *”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“أحيانًا ، يخاف الناس من الأشخاص المختلفين عنهم . لا يعني ذلك أنهم سيئون ولكنهم ضيقو التفكير وحسب”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“لقد أخبرني والدايّ بأن الطريقة الفضلى لتدبر أمر المتنمرين هي إهانتهم بتعليق ذكي ولاذع ثم الاستدارة والمغادرة.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“عندما كان زملاء صفي يسخرون مني أو يهمسون كلمات بغيضة في قاعة الدراسة ، كنت أعزل نفسي عنهم وأنظم قصيدة ، وأغوص في صوت القلم الهادئ وهو يتحرك فوق الصفحة
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― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“عندما يكون المرء ضحية لأي نوع من التعسف، يمكنه أن يفعل أحد أمرين. يمكنه تعلم كيفية تحويل الألم إلى غاية وإحداث فرق في العالم أو يمكنه السماح له بإخماد النور في داخله. إن اختار الأمر الأخير، يكون قد ضحّى بأكثر من طفولته لآلهة الشعبية القساة.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“لم اختر أن أكون مختلفة مثلما لا يختار أحد أن يكون شاذا أو طويلا. لا يمكن انتقاء ما أنت عليه في هذه الحياة ولكن يمكنك أن تقرر ما ستصبح عليه.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“يمكنك التغلب عى الحزن والوحدة وحتى الخسارة الفادحة ولكن الذنب يرافقك حتى مماتك.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“لا يمكن للمرء أن يتهرب من ذاته. يمكنه تجاهلها ولكن لا يمكن التهرب ابداً.”
― Jodee Blanco, quote from Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
“During these years of loss and sorrow, I have had to reconcile myself to the truth about my father, Osama bin Laden. I know now that since the first day of the first battle against the Soviets in Afghanistan, my father has been killing other humans. He admitted as much to me, back in those days when I was his tea boy in Afghanistan. I often wonder if my father has killed so many times that the act of killing no longer brings him pleasure or pain. I am nothing like my father. While he prays for war, I pray for peace. And now we go our separate ways, each believing that we are right.”
― quote from Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
“I could feel something cold stalking my heart. It was fear. They all begin this way, I thought, with pledges of love.”
― Judith Merkle Riley, quote from La Jeune Fille aux Oracles
“Il piccolo elfo ebbe l'impressione di essere diventato meno orfano. Era una sensazione curiosa. Come se la solitudine fosse un muro di vetro che per la prima volta mostrava incrinature e crepe.
Era l'ultimo di una stirpe distrutta, ma dal passato gli arrivava un po' dell'affetto che il presente gli negava.
Le sue dita passavano e ripassavano sugli oggetti: erano stati fatti per lui; gli erano stati lasciati. Qualcuno gli aveva voluto bene mentre li faceva, mentre glieli lasciava.
Sperò che Morte fosse un posto da dove il suo papà potesse vederlo.”
― Silvana de Mari, quote from The Last Dragon
“The nations of Israel and of the world are all broken, like pieces of shattered glass. It is time for all of us to come together and start anew, not with old ideas about buildings that need to be erected and divisions that need to be marked, but with the new idea of restoring ourselves into unity with God and with one another.”
― Perri Birney, quote from Pure Vision: The Magdalene Revelation
“Yet he knew things he would have preferred not to know. Things about men and the evil they do. Things so terrible as to make anyone's confidence waver, and contaminate anyone's heart forever. He looked at the people around him, people who lived without that burden of knowledge, and envied them.”
― Donato Carrisi, quote from The Lost Girls of Rome
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