Ann Voskamp Quotes

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

What is most difficult is when the large part of me that is a narcissist grows weary and is overtaken by the self-loathing part that always lurks in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to shine.

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Comparison is the death of joy.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

I promote my own self-hatred.

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

We should not pour muck on ourselves.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.