Jane Yolen Quotes

The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls and bodies.

My toughest enemy is in the mirror - would you look at that.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

I am my best enemy.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.

Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform.

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?

I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...

Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think... it's me".

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.