Quotes About Self-betrayal

Just as claiming our power is an act of self-love, forsaking it is an act of self-betrayal. We pay dearly for deference and dependency. It costs us our autonomy, self-esteem, and peace of mind.

men are who they are. We try to make them into something they are not, and then are astonished when they turn out not to be what we wanted. We betray ourselves.

It takes a lifetime of practice to betray yourself without showing any effort, to be so dream-locked and absent that you say the reverse of what you mean, over and over again, to do the opposite of what is good for you.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character. If you have a weak character, then adversity will mow you down when it appears, as it will, inevitably. You will hide, but there will be no place left to hide. And then you will find yourself doing terrible things.

every single voluntarily unprocessed and uncomprehended and ignored reason for marital failure will compound and conspire and will then plague that betrayed and self-betrayed woman for the rest of her life.

Kada iznevjerite sami sebe, kada govorite neistine i živite laž, slabite svoj karakter. Ako imate slab karakter, nevolje ?e vas pomesti kada se pojave, a neizbježno je da se pojave. Skrivat ?ete se, ali ne?ete se više imati kamo skriti. A onda ?ete se zate?i kako radite užasne stvari.

Maybe following the dictates of conscience is in fact the best possible plan that you have—at minimum, otherwise you have to live with your sense of self-betrayal and the knowledge that you put up with what you truly could not tolerate. Nothing about that is good.

Learning to wear a mask (that word already embedded in the term "masculinity") is the first lesson in patriarchal masculinity that a boy learns. He learns that his core feelings cannot be expressed if they do not conform to the acceptable behaviors sexism defines as male. Asked to give up the true self in order to realize the patriarchal ideal, boys learn self-betrayal early and are rewarded for these acts of soul murder.

No male successfully measures up to patriarchal standards without engaging in an ongoing practice of self-betrayal.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

Why do people betray their brothers and eventually themselves? -The Cripple

It was the autobiography of a man who could not face himself, an elaborate system of evasion and lies unredeemed by the artistic virtue of self-betrayal.

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

Você não deve se entregar a tormentos e tristezas existenciais! Não é mais um menino, deve compreender o que lhe acontecerá se essa moça, filha do seu falecido amigo, essa criança, em vez de simples passatempo, vier a se tornar o objeto da sua loucura. Caia em si! Seja fiel a si mesmo, não traia seus hábitos. Senão, tudo voará pelos ares", pensava.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

We can spend our entire life betraying ourself and choosing fitting in over standing alone. But once we've stood up for ourself and our beliefs, the bar is higher. A wild heart fights fitting in and grieves betrayal.

Betrayal is an important word with this guidepost. When we value being cool and in control over granting ourselves the freedom to unleash the passionate, goofy, heartfelt, and soulful expressions of who we are, we betray ourselves. When we consistently betray ourselves, we can expect to do the same to the people we love. When

Betrayal is an important word with this guidepost. When we value being cool and in control over granting ourselves the freedom to unleash the passionate, goofy, heartfelt, and soulful expressions of who we are, we betray ourselves. When we consistently betray ourselves, we can expect to do the same to the people we love.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

Self-betrayal is the germ that creates the disease of self-deception. And, like childbed fever, self-deception has many different symptoms—from lack of motivation and commitment to stress and communication problems. Organizations die, or are severely crippled, by those symptoms. And that happens because those who carry the germ don't know they're carrying it.

There's a particular self-betrayal that almost everyone engages in at work to one degree or another, a self-betrayal concerning the very purpose of what we were hired to do—to focus on helping the organization and its people to achieve results. The key to solving most of the people problems that afflict organizations is in discovering how we can solve this central workplace self-betrayal.

Cheating on self, is a paralysis of being.

Una de las mayores fuentes de sufrimiento es traicionarse a uno mismo: sentir o pensar de un modo y actuar de otro, sabiendo perfectamente que estás yendo en contra de ti mismo.