We’ve all heard those stupid platitudes: Just keep trying, It’ll happen when the time is right, Your time will come Keep your chin up (what does my posture have to do with anything?) God just neede…
What do you say when someone close to you enters a season of intense pain and grief? How do serve them well? Some of the most common choices include the following. First, you can avoid them. It is painful and unsettling to see people hurting; it’s easier to just avoid it. Second, you can minimize it. Try to shrink down the effect of what is happening by contrasting it with something else. Third, you could trivialize it. This is perhaps the most common. Here we say a bunch of stuff that doesn’t make any sense or help. But, it’s ok since...
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Being Bobby's mom is exactly with Anne Grunsted wants, to she asks strangers to stop the false praise.
The stream of empty platitudes ordering troop worship is especially ironic considering the abysmal treatment veterans receive once they return home. Abby Martin | Check out other quotes: https://ordinaryquotes.com/pictures-quotes/best-abby-martin-quotes/
The Narcissist will make demands and commands and if you do not follow through, you become enemy number one. She will… by sarapters
by Angela Miller If you’re a bereaved parent, you can probably count on at least five hands the number of phrases you wish people would never, ever say to you. If only there was a way for the world…
ALEXANDER KASPERI WITHEY The 2013 recreation of Harald Szeemann’s landmark 1969 exhibition 'Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form', at the Venice Biennale, was the most recent in a string of recreations and reconfigurations of this exhibition. To what extent does the recreation change the pertinence of the original curatorial rationale and the ideas…
Because they realize some platitudes create resistance, not rapport.
Are Christians equipped to test the platitudes of worldly wisdom in our own times? Do we even think to test the platitudes? Do we even think?
Voltaire's wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful defense against bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
Type specimen poster of one of our favorite fonts set in one of our favorite platitudes.
About the afterlife without the woo. Grief without the platitudes.. Learn about scientific evidence if we survive death.
In contrast with the United Methodist Board of Church and Society’s usual pacifist platitudes, two United Methodist bishops have made...
Sometimes you gotta make an apologetic for apologetics. Often well-meaning Christians spout off pious-sounding platitudes like "faith isn't ...
Corporate sustainability is dominated by sanitised commitments and unhelpful platitudes, much more dynamic coalitions are desperately needed, says Jo Confino
Don't waste time with platitudes about how 60 is the new 40, because what the heck does 40 look like these days?
How would you describe your leadership style? If you stammer out a list of sweet little platitudes you’ve likely never truly asked yourself this question.
