Quotes About Self-betrayal

He is most cheated who cheats himself.

If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.

no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.

While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

I thought I knew what love was, but I have never felt like this before" is a common refrain. People in this state talk to me about love, transcendence, awakening, destiny, divine intervention—something so pure that they could not pass it by, because "to deny those feelings would have been an act of self-betrayal.

When the need for someone else's love or approval outweighs one's own, self-betrayal is near.

Amar es cansarse de estar solo: es, por lo tanto, una cobardía y una traición a nosotros mismos.

The thief's widow had turned him, before she married him, into a thief of a stupid and terrible kind, because she had made him rob himself.

Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

What is addiction really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood. The drug business would not nourish if there were not so many people who, in refusing to acknowledge their wounds, are in a permanent state of self-betrayal. Thus, people work to get rid of symptoms instead of searching out the cause.

En derinlerdeki dürtülerimizi gizlemeye çal??t???m?z zaman tüm varl???m?z ihaneti hayk?r?r.

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

when I betray myself, others' faults become immediately inflated in my heart and mind. I begin to 'horribilize' others. That is, I begin to make them out to be worse than they really are. And I do this because the worse they are, the more justified I feel.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

That's right. The truth is, her faults seemed relevant to whether I should help her only after I failed to help her. I focused on and inflated her faults when I needed to feel justified for mine. After I betrayed myself, the truth was just the opposite of what I thought it was.

Exactly," he said, turning again and writing on the board. "Self-betrayal is how we enter the box." "Self-betrayal" 1. An act contrary to what I feel I should do for another is called an act of "self-betrayal." 2. When I betray myself, I begin to see the world in a way that justifies my self-betrayal. 3. When I see the world in a self-justifying way, my view of reality becomes distorted. 4. So — when I betray myself, I enter the box.

Think about it this way," Bud went on, pointing to the board. "What's the only thing that happened in this story between the time that I wasn't irritated and angry and the time I was?" I looked at the diagram. "Your choice not to do what you felt you should do," I said. "Your self-betrayal." "That's right. That's all that happened. So what caused my irritation and anger at Nancy?

But that wasn't true. The only thing that happened between the time that Bud felt irritated and angry and the time that he didn't was something that Bud did — his own self-betrayal — not something that Nancy did. So Bud's feelings were lying to him!

The key to solving most of the people problems that afflict organizations is in discovering how we can solve this central workplace self-betrayal.

Which is to say," he continued, "that when I violate the sensibility I have about others and how I should be toward them, I immediately begin to see the world in ways that justify my self-betrayal. In those moments, I am beginning to see and live crookedly, which creates the need within me to be justified.

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