What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Quotes about unmerited (6 Quotes)
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
It is unfortunate for our peace, that unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.
Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.