Self Inflicted Quotes

• Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Self, Quality, Trying

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• I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

  John Mayer

  Mistake, Self, Tears

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• Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

  Sophocles

  Hurt, Self, Trouble

  Sophocles (2012). “Oedipus the King”, p.65, University of Chicago Press

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• All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

  Sebastian Coe

  Motivational, Self, Track

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• All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Character, Self

  Andrew Carnegie (1933). “Miscellaneous Writings of Andrew Carnegie”

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• Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.

  Thomas Keating

  Names, Self, Childhood

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• It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

  Arthur Helps

  Spiritual, Loss, Self

  Sir Arthur Helps (1857). “Companions of My Solitude”, p.28

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• Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

  James Dillehay

  Pain, Self, Unhappy Person

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• Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Smirk, Crowns

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• We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

  Philip Greenspun

  Self, Worried, Gunshots

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• If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Self

  Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). “Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.47, Cambridge University Press

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• You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.

  Maurice Jones-Drew

  Football, Self, Play

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• The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

  Henry Louis Gates

  Children, Reading, School

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.546, Basic Books

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• The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.

  Steven Levenkron

  Pain, Mean, Self

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• Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Self, Humanity

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.

  Judith Viorst

  Self, Soul, Guilt

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds. But I will not endlessly gaze at them. I shall allow the memories to prod me into doing better with those still living. And I shall allow them to sharpen the vision and intensify the hope for that Great Day coming when we can all throw ourselves into each other's arms and say, "I'm sorry."

  Nicholas Wolterstorff

  Sorry, Memories, Regret

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• When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will be sporting a huge, self-inflicted and well-deserved black eye. Then will come the billion-dollar awards, by enraged juries, to the children and their families. I can't wait.

  Bernard Rimland

  Children, Eye, Awards

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• SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

  Eric Butterworth

  Self, Sin, Nonsense

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• Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute

  Erich Heller

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  Harlan Coben

  Jobs, Real, Inspiration

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• Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Writing, Self, Black

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.

  Erykah Badu

  Self, Creating, Decision

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• So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Self, Different, Kind

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• I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Self, Who I Am

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