Punish Yourself Quotes

#1. You don't have to live with anger, or sadness, or jealousy. You don't have to judge yourself, make yourself guilty, and punish yourself.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#2. Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.

Karen Salmansohn

#3. Why do you still feel the need to punish yourself for something that was out of your control?

Faith Sullivan

#4. As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

#5. You think you deserve this. You think you deserve to be alone and suffer. You've convinced yourself you're so worthless that you've gone to the extreme to punish yourself. You think you deserve a life of misery.

Nicole Williams

#6. If you desire it, you must punish yourself for the sake of learning, seek every advantage in keeping up with the other clerks and in excelling them. You must study with the fervor of the blessed or the cursed.

Noah Gordon

#7. Your pain's become the only light you know. You want to punish yourself. You think your life has to be a tragedy.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#8. We all make mistakes. The more you punish yourself for them, the harder it is to live.

Kristina Adams

#9. Don't punish yourself over yesterday's mistakes and failures, just try to accept them and also learn from them; try to move on to the bright future.

Euginia Herlihy

#10. There is no need to punish yourself. Simply notice what you've been choosing and choose again.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. And please," Ilsa Hermann advised her, "don't punish yourself, like you said you would. Don't be like me, Liesel.

Markus Zusak

#12. What sentence will you choose to impose on yourself? Are you willing to stop suffering and making yourself miserable when your sentence has expired? This would at least be a responsible way to punish yourself because it would be time-limited.

David D. Burns

#13. As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to punish yourself, without waiting to be forced to do so by necessity.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#14. I don't guess I've watched you punish yourself for thirty years to be totally wrong about you.

Larry McMurtry

#15. Don't punish yourself for what others have done to you. You're better than them. You're better than you think.

Mia Tyler

#16. You've used me to punish yourself, haven't you?"
He watched dawning realization spread over her face, a confirmation more positive than anything she could ever say, and that arrow twisted deep in his
chest. Yet still he had to ask the last question.
"Am I anything to you but a punishment?

Elizabeth Hoyt

#17. It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.

Seth

#18. Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it.

Stephanie Klein

#19. You don't need to worry any more or punish yourself about food. It is totally counterproducti ve to stress yourself out about weight loss because that same stress causes you to put weight on.

Marc David

#20. You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

L. Ron Hubbard

#21. Do not punish yourself if you waver. Humans judge, nature does not.

Devdutt Pattnaik

#22. If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

John Vianney

#23. And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only punishing yourself. And what's the point of that?

Alexander McCall Smith

#24. You can't cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you wrap yourself in the banner of free speech in order to protest state punishment of views you like and share.

Glenn Greenwald

#25. I back up all my rules with discipline. So you'd be giving yourself over to me. Mine to punish. Mine to pleasure

Renee Rose

#26. ...hope nourishes while loss empties a person out," he said.... "Lila, my love, my love,...lay down your weapons. Don't punish us because I told myself a different story than the one you told yourself.

Anat Talshir

#27. How do you punish a man when your heart beats in his chest? How do you hurt your beloved without also hurting yourself?

Bettie Sharpe

#28. Just like you can't punish anyone without punishing yourself, you can't love anyone without loving yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Repression isn't the answer. I know that. It's one of the things that punish the body for what's closed up in the mind. It's always so much easier to analyze someone else, always much harder to see things when it's yourself.

Nora Roberts

#30. Stop punishing yourself for things not accomplish yet in life. As long as there is life, there is hope. It is important for you to value who you are by the grace of God. Now, get set to improve that value!

Israelmore Ayivor

#31. If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he ... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.

John Locke