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Quotes About Hang-ups

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
~ Richard Brautigan
The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
~ James D. Watson
List down all your distractions, all your addictions, all your hang-ups, and all your toxic relationships. Then cut them out of your life so you can finally move forward.
~ Kevin J. Donaldson
It really was an accident," I told him. "Marcus thought I was there to abduct him." Adrian, having no such hang-ups with the bed, sat down. He winced, probably from the blow to the stomach. "If someone like you showed up to abduct me, I'd let you.
~ Richelle Mead
When educators lack critical consciousness about race/racism, have not adequately dealt with their own racial hang-ups, and are uncomfortable and unprepared to deal with difficult dialogues on race, they become part of the race talk problem (Bell, 2003; Pollock, 2004).
~ Derald Wing Sue
She glanced over at Adrian. "But then, you must've overcome a few of your hang-ups about the supernatural if you rode in the same as Jaclyn's pool boy." "These hands don't do manual labor," Adrian told her. "Be quiet, boy," she snapped. "Before you become less endearing.
~ Richelle Mead
Gymnasts develop fears about certain moves and get hang-ups about doing routines at meets or anxiety about certain rivals who can psych them out.
~ Donna Freitas
President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.
~ Ben Shapiro
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
~ Richard Brautigan
During my sessions with Dr. Morse, I concluded that somebody had been messing with my head during those early years and they left footprints on my brain. I have spent almost as much time on Seventh-Day Adventists in my analysis as I have on my mother. I am willing to bet that this place was responsible for many of my hang-ups.
~ Art Buchwald
Put out good vibes and ask others to do the same for you. I have an outgoing message on my phone, for example, that says, "I'm not in right now. Leave a positive message and I'll call you back." It's incredible how many hang-ups I get with that message. It blocks a ton of bad vibes and negative downloads. The messages that do get left are so uplifting and wonderful and make my day.
~ Sonia Choquette
I think everybody's got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you're an idiot.
~ Domhnall Gleeson
We both had hang-ups, insecurities, and an addiction to each other that required regular contact to keep us functioning properly. I hated being apart from him. I rarely went more than a couple of hours without thinking of him.
~ Sylvia Day
I'll deal with your hang-ups if you'll deal with mine, but if you're still too scared to even try, then you're not worth waiting for. I have some goddamn pride left and I won't wait forever.
~ Charlaine Harris
The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.
~ Matthew Quick
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
~ Lucinda Williams
I think Brits are more confident probably, and don't rely on self help in the way a lot of Americans do. But we've certainly got our share of hang ups.
~ Dawn O'Porter
This sex thing. We never used to be hung up like this. Nature doesn't give little kids problems except when there's some kind of an accident--like that eight-year-old South American girl that had a baby. But that's practically a mutation, right?
~ Paul Zindel
The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. The other problem is that our hang-ups, unfortunately or fortunately, contain our wealth. Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.
~ Pema Chodron
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
~ Lucinda Williams