Insults Quotes

“How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding.”

“Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.”

“One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.”

“The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.”

“One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior?”

“The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.”

“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions, which this wasn’t.) But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail.But somehow I was not insulted; I became greatly interested in studying his command of language. I wished that we had had him on our debate team.”

“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults dictionary, which I stole.”

“Even if you insult him, he gives you his blessings; such a one only is the Gnani Purush [The enlightened one]!”