No man is hurt but by himself.
Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
I was an accomplice in my own frustration.
For the higher interest of the nation, you've got to be capable of hurting yourself.
I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.
I admire people who destroy themselves.
You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
Penance is the willingness to undergo hardships for the achievement of a good purpose. I was willing. But when hardships came I found myself lifted above them. Instead of hardship, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy and conviction that I was following God's will. Blessings instead of hardships are showered upon me.
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over your own ability to deny yourself food - that to me is a very profound and sad methodology and indicator of how powerless a lot of people feel in this world. That they will turn that onto themselves until they are physically smaller. I think it's affected my worldview a lot - just being sensitive and empathetic towards the ways people want to be small. I don't wish smallness for anyone.
If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.
