“I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.”
Billie Holiday
“The definition of small business should be measured by profitability not by the number of people they employ”
Kenneth waters Jr
“Local businesses are under attack by an in invading army of franchisees. the mom & pops are a dying breed”
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
Neil Gaiman
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
William Somerset Maugham
“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.”
Terry Brooks
