hurting ourselves Quotes

“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”

“In actuality, misery is a moment of suffering allowed to become everything. So, when feeling miserable, we must look wider than what hurts. When feeling a splinter, we must, while trying to remove it, remember there is a body that is not splinter, and a spirit that is not splinter, and a world that is not splinter.”

“If you take in someone else’s poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.”

“Don’t sabotage yourself. There are plenty of other people willing to do that for free.”

“One day your love for yourself will outweigh the love that keeps you holding onto someone who chooses to hurt you;”

“Emotional CPR. We try our hardest to force life into things that must die and that’s what hurts the most.”

“and so I’ve learned to expect nothing sometimes my emotional switch remains off you can’t get hurt if you feel nothing”

“I need release, I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me, and then I can comfort myself.”