Coming home Quote by St. Jerome

“When we feel like victims, all our actions and beliefs are legitimised, however questionable they may be. Our opponents, or simply our neighbours, stop…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own…

— Epictetus

Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut…

— George Sand

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

— C. S. Lewis

We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man…

— Frank Miller

“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are…

— Epictetus

A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments…

— Jane Porter

Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.

— Steven Pressfield

“This is so true that we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society.…

— Albert Camus

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear…

— Rich Mullins