John Irving Quote

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.

Statt seine Persönlichkeit zu vernichten, war es nur gelungen, ihn sich selbst hassen zu lehren.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest.

When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.

That is because no one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably within the last half h...

There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, beca...