Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.

I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.

Self-judgment continues to arise - it's a strong habit - but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

I'm crap and a fatty.

Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."

Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.

That's the biggest thing to separate - your body from your self worth.

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary