Quotes About Inner-struggle

It's never the enemy without who brings you down. It's always the enemy within.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Romola had had contact with no mind that could stir the larger possibilities of her nature; they lay folded and crushed like embryonic wings, making no element in her consciousness beyond an occasional vague uneasiness.

I am trying to find myself in all of the chaos, find something that I can call me inside the screams and inside the 'you shoulds' and 'you have to bes.

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

but life went on, even at times like this, and it was surprising how easy it was to keep going as though nothing had changed. i found it strange that i could walk down the street and appear normal, just like anyone else. that i could be in complete turmoil inside, and yet my reflection in a shop window could look the same as it ever had.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

I'm so bad with people I can't even win an argument with myself.

The sword master stepping onto the fighting floor knows he will be facing powerful opponents. Not the physical adversaries whom he will fight (though those indeed serve as stand-ins for the enemy). The real enemy is inside himself. The monk in meditation knows this. So does the yogi. So do the film editor and the video-game creator and the software writer.

Becoming a genuine individual requires learning the oppositions within oneself. Those who fail or refuse to face the oppositions within have no choice but to find enemies to project upon. Enemy simply means a not-friend; unless a person deals with the not-friend within they require enemies around them.

She talks to demons. Yes, to one: herself.

But worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself

You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.

Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.

Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

I don't need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.

In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite.

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

He was glad he was facing his problems, but there was one person he could never escape—himself.

In real life, love and hate are often only separable if we're willing to recognize our demons and choose to become better people.

Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself.