Quotes About Internalization

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

What the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. You become a collaborator, an accomplice to your own murderers, because you believe the same things they do.

You can tell yourself anything you want, but until you believe what you're telling yourself, you're wasting words.

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine.

Whenever a young person encounters trauma, they react to it and they also repeat it. Modeling has elements of identifying with the aggressor. In modeling, you don't resist the dysfunctional mores of your family—you reenact them. You see yourself as you were seen; you internalize bad behavior as normal.

You've probably heard comments such as these your entire life: "Why can't she put her stuff away?" "Doesn't she care how it affects the rest of us?" "Why is she so lazy?" "What a pig!" And you have most likely internalized these painful, derogatory, negative remarks over the years until they have slaughtered your self-esteem, making you wonder What is wrong with me?

I don't really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It's all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Un libro se puede quemar o perder, pero, cuando uno se lo aprende, el libro ya forma parte de su persona y los conocimientos duran tanto como él.

These values, however, cannot be espoused and adopted by us on a conscious level—they are something that we are.

Yet he too obsessed me for years. Until I wrote it out, I would find my lips moving; I would be arguing with him; raging against him; saying to myself all that I never said to him. How deep they drove themselves into me, the things it was impossible to say aloud.

Internalization cannot happen through a mass transference to an audience but must occur in an interpersonal environment.

some people take all the pain they've been knowing their whole life and pack it down inside them where it festers, oozing pus. Gangrene of the soul. That sore then becomes them. It's what bubbles up. You can smell it.

But at the same time, I'm guilty, too. Guilty of playing this role. Letting it define me. Internalizing the role so completely that I've lost track of where reality starts and the performance begins. And letting that define how I see other people. I'm as guilty of it as anyone. Fetishizing Black people and their coolness. Romanticizing White women. Wishing I were a White man. Putting myself into this category.

But at the same time, I'm guilty too. Guilty of playing this role, letting it define me, internalizing the role so completely that I've lost track of where reality starts and the performance begins.

Sometimes, if we can't find another person to dump our anger on, we turn it on ourselves. The textbook definition of depression is anger turned inward instead of being discharged outward.

He had accepted that if you were a bookish person the events in your life took place in your head.

W]hat makes a work of art 'good' for you is not something that is already 'inside' it, but something that happens inside you.

I am mentally strong, but physically I'm constantly unwell. I internalise a lot of things, and if something stresses me or disturbs me, I don't talk about it and make myself sick with it.

I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

self-stigma is not a person's fault; nor is it a part of the person's illness! If the public did not hold negative and stigmatizing attitudes in the first place, these would never have become internalized, causing people the painful and disabling experience of self-stigma.

That was the last day I lived in my body. I retreated above the neck, and lived inside the fire in my head ever since.

Things don't go away. They become you.

Once he'd been set off inside, it mattered so much that he was somehow afraid to show how much it mattered.