53 Quotes About Self-sabotage




  • Author Nina LaCour
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    I know that I’m holding myself back. I know that something needs to change, and that I need to bethe one to change it. And I know—I know—that if you’re patient with me, what I find on the other end of it, once the towers have burned down, willbe you.

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  • Author Nina LaCour
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    I know that I’m holding myself back. I know that something needs to change, and that I need to be the one to change it. And I know—I know—that if you’re patient with me, what I find on the other end of it, once the towers have burned down, will be you.

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  • Author James Whitfield Thomson
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    I said Matt was too perfect. I was tired of trying to love him, tired of the burden of being loved. How could anyone live with all that devotion and understanding? The scale was tilted so far in my favor it felt like an unbearable weight, a fortune I was compelled to squander.

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  • Author Jhumpa Lahiri
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    She'd convinced herself that Subhash was her rival, and that she was in competition for him for Bela, a competition that felt insulting, unjust. But of course it had not been a competition, it had been her own squandering. Her own withdrawal, covert, ineluctable. With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether

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