gossip

Those we murder with our mouths often live longest

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.

It seems a lot of Christians are quick to condemn the world and write its inhabitants off as lost causes. It__ odd, though, Jesus never did. He healed and lovingly confronted. Jesus engaged and walked among his enemies, not to breathe fire upon them, but to breathe life into them. He could only change their lives through being part of their lives. He didn__ write books, he didn__ constrain his preaching to just the synagogues. He didn__ stand aloof bad mouthing the world and his enemies to his disciples in the safety of an insular compound. No, Jesus deliberately walked and lived amongst those he came to serve.

Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.

It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not interested enough in other people and the ordinary doings of people. That is why the real historians of Africa had always been the grandmothers, who remembered the lineage and the stories that went with it.

Remember, Reilly, gossip is just people's insecurity and fear of what they don't really understand," Eilam said. "It is unconsciously propagated to feed their egos." "Doesn't it ever bother you?", Reilly asked as he pulled the top off his yogurt. "I've lived too long to put any stock in the external judgments of others,or to take anything personally.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people.

If one is content to freely speak trash about another, it is probably more correct to judge them as the one of ill repute and refuse the load of garbage they offer you.

To actively improve the worldand change your life as well,speak all the good you know,and all the bad refuse to tell.

When gossip starts, be deaf.

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.

One of the most difficult defilements of the spirit to deal with is the critical spirit. A critical spirit has its root in pride. Because of the 'plank' of pride in our own eye we are not capable of dealing with the 'speck' of need in someone else. We are often like the Pharisee who, completely unconscious of his own need prayed "God, I thank you that I am not like other men" (Luke 18:11). We are quick to see - and to speak of - the faults of others, but slow to see our own needs. How sweetly we relish the opportunity to speak critically of someone else - even when we are unsure of the facts. We forge that "a man who stirs up dissension among brothers" by criticizing one to another is one of the "six thing which the Lord hates" (Proverbs 6:16-19)