Quotes About Neglect

Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind

A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

It hurts to realize that the person who loved you most was the person you never took notice of until they're finally gone.

It's unfair when we find ourselves loving those who don't care about us while ignoring those who truly care and love us.

Sometimes when you show someone that you love and care for them, you only end up hurting yourself, because they never cared to bother and appreciate it.

I remember the ones who never cared while forgetting the ones who have always been there.

Weeds grew, and I ignored my chores, while the cat worried her tail of its most plumescent fur. I saw my body, white as tallow, my face framed by colorless hair, noted my appetites, then put them aside, walked and walked to wear it all away.

My sisters were either still at school or with friends, my mother was out drinking and my father was out whoring. As a result, I sought—as I still do— affection, loyalty and friendship from animals.

In a world where we're often judged harshly for identifying and revealing our needs, doing so can be very frightening. Women, in particular, are susceptible to criticism. For centuries, the image of the loving woman has been associated with sacrifice and the denial of one's own needs to take care of others. Because women are socialized to view the caretaking of others as their highest duty, they often learn to ignore their own needs.

The psychological trauma created by the removal, combined with the neglect or abuse that preceded it, leaves the child forever changed and forever different from other children.

But mostly because the news was boring and I didn't care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn't have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.

That winter the son's need for his father's love was again disappointed. On November 10, three weeks before his twelfth birthday, he wrote to him, 'You never came to see me on Sunday when you were in Brighton.' This was the second time his father had been in Brighton but had not gone to see him.

and yet neither the bishops nor canons care how the poor people live or die, for whom nevertheless Christ has died, and who are not permitted to hear Him speak with them as the true Shepherd with His sheep.

Woman, a pleasing but short-lived flower, Too soft for business and too weak for power: A wife in bondage, or neglected maid: Despised, if ugly; if she's fair, betrayed. - Mary Leapor, 1722-1746 'An Essay on Woman' Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it. - Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-1861 'The Latest Decalogue

A. W. Tozer advirtió: "El corazón descuidado pronto será un corazón invadido por pensamientos mundanos; la vida descuidada pronto se convertirá en un caos moral".[2] Con la disminución de la influencia piadosa y el aumento de la mundana, Julia se transformó poco a poco en aquello a lo que estaba expuesta.

How ironic she thought, to store the past but never tend to it. ~ Mary June

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last