Leslie Jamison Quotes

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

I don't get along much with myself.

I act the way I act and I'm not proud of it.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I have no desire to look at myself.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

I don't think I can be too hard on myself.

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'

I always say when someone says something negative about me, it's really saying something negative about them.