Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

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

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

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

I apologise now to everybody for being the way I've been. What I was doing, torturing myself over an illness, is horrible. You push them away because you're trying to quantify what's gone on.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.

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

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

In all kinds of ways, I used to be really, really hard on myself.

Women are hard on themselves.

I'm horribly self-critical.

When I don't play well, nobody needs to say anything to me. I beat myself up.

I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.

I had such intense self-loathing for so long.

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

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself.

I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it's going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I'm 33 now. The body won't keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can't even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong.

If you constantly beat yourself up with negative thoughts, you will either beat up on the people around you- verbally, emotionally, or physically- or you will beat up on yourself by destroying some area of your own life.

I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive.