Self Betrayal Quotes

• 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.

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  Marianne Williamson

  Betrayal   Commitment   Self  

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.157, Hay House, Inc

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• jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

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  Edna O'Brien

  Jealousy   Betrayal   Self  

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• I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

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  Mason Cooley

  Betrayal   Self   Self Betrayal  

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• Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

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  Subhash Kak

  Betrayal   Self   Careers  

  Subhash Kak (1994). “The astronomical code of the Ṛgveda”

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• I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life bound me to them. I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them. I apprehended that excruciating war survivor's torment, the sense of isolation and self-betrayal experienced by those who had elected to cling yet to breath when their comrades had let loose their grip.

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  Steven Pressfield

  Betrayal   War   Self  

  Steven Pressfield (2010). “Gates Of Fire”, p.29, Random House

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• It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

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  John Ralston Saul

  Betrayal   Believe   Self  

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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