Edwin Louis Cole Quotes

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

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

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

We bless and curse ourselves.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

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

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.

I am my best enemy.

I don't get along much with myself.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

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

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

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

God defend me from myself.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

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