Seth Godin Quotes

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.

That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.

I don't have a lot of shame. That doesn't mean I can't feel bad about the way someone reacts to me or about something I read about myself online. But I don't have a lot of guilt, no. I've always been this way. I'm missing a chip.

The biggest lesson I've learned throughout the first season of 'Workin' Moms' is that you have to give yourself permission to forgive yourself.

I'm not a perfect person. I never will be. I'm not going to try to be.

What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.

I do have a little bit of trouble with candor around the things that I used to do. I think it's probably just resultant of shame and embarrassment and not wanting to be defined by the life that I used to live.

Forgive everybody but yourself.

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.

Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light; and let us remember for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.