The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Am I being unfair? Is it only my self-hatred playing me a trick? Self-hatred is a gendered feeling: in a man it… — Jens Christian Grøndahl Copy Share Image
The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred. — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings… — Kenneth Wapnick Copy Share Image
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Unreasonable self-criticism represents a form of self-hatred and fear.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“I sat back and looked at it. It was ugly, dark, uncontrolled. Like a monster's face. Or maybe what I saw there… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Self love will be the immunity from every infectious community that makes you sick of being who you are.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“The concentration camps were a laboratory for the Nazis. They put the minorities and intellectuals in there because the general population wouldn't… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Depression can be a form of self hatred. We don't feel comfortable in our own skin.” — Michele Mcknight Baker Copy Share Image
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
