Shyam Selvadurai Quotes

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

I feel like 2013 was one giant snowball of me being confused with my place in life and within the group. A lot of it was self-confidence issues, a lot of outside issues, and a lot of me questioning the future of what I was doing. And my mistake was letting all that influence me so that I wasn't the best I could be in life!

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another

If it's about work or sports or politics or women, we have no problem sharing our opinions, but if it's about our insecurities or our struggles, our fear of failure, then it's almost like we become paralyzed.

I'm not sure I'm very confident at all. There was a lot of my life when I thought I was fundamentally unlovable.

Personally, I've struggled with a lot of doubt in myself at times.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.