People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are. Carol Plum-Ucci More Quotes by Carol Plum-Ucci More Quotes From Carol Plum-Ucci It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself. Carol Plum-Ucci fine insane long Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion. Carol Plum-Ucci bullshit giving needs People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them. Carol Plum-Ucci truth-is able people There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine. Carol Plum-Ucci growing shining way Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's? Carol Plum-Ucci faults believe people You're in my personal space, so get out of it. Carol Plum-Ucci personal-space space People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive. Carol Plum-Ucci order people thinking You can never see a plant grow, but they do. Carol Plum-Ucci grows plant Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better. Carol Plum-Ucci feel-better feels sometimes If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much. Carol Plum-Ucci behavior humans hurt Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart. Carol Plum-Ucci complete-happiness terror looks But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different. Carol Plum-Ucci knowing hurt people I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM. Carol Plum-Ucci gone wish My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that. Carol Plum-Ucci swings mind wind My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does. Carol Plum-Ucci talking past moving You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. Carol Plum-Ucci knows believe Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living? Carol Plum-Ucci really-living life-is looks You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues. Carol Plum-Ucci dues pay Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic? Carol Plum-Ucci magic-moments believe people People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit. Carol Plum-Ucci believe lying people
