Henry David Thoreau 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.

It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

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

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

God defend me from myself.

I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility.

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

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

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

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.