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“As your lover describes you, so you are.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption
and watch the world play its part
relative to to its fulfillment.”
― Neville Goddard

“Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“Oversharing? Not vulnerability; I call it floodlighting. ... A lot of times we share too much information as a way to protect us from vulnerability, and here's why.

I'm scared to let you know that I just wrote this article and I'm under total fire for it and people are making fun of me and I'm feeling hurt -- the same thing that I told someone in an intimate conversation. So what I do is I floodlight you with it - I don't know you very well or I'm in front of a big group, or it's a story that I haven't processed enough to be sharing with other people - and you immediately respond "hands up; push me away" and I go, "See? No one cares about me. No one gives a s*** that I'm hurting. I knew it."

It's how we protect ourselves from vulnerability. We just engage in a behavior that confirms our fear.”
― Brené Brown, The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage

“Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Most of us don't fear that we are not enough; what most of us really fear is our own greatness. Most of us have a fear of success. Why? Because we don't think that we deserve to be successful in anything. This is why people recklessly spend their money or don't work as hard as they could or do things that they know are wrong. They are hindering their own success on purpose, because they don't think they deserve it. They cut their own legs out from underneath them on purpose. They are self-sabotaging.”
― Lisa Bedrick, How to Walk Worthy of Your Calling

“When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become fogged with the lack of perception stained with the sting of longing. The voice of reason is lost in the envious echoes of hearts torn by battle. The song of our children echo the misfortune of their parent's haze---we all started out small and had dreams to become something more than what we were.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Choose your beliefs wisely, for they will become your reality.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Our goal in life is to carry with us the wisdom of experience, yet treat each new day as its own unique reality, rather than comparing what currently is to what has been in the past. When we compare, we plant expectations that then become self-fulfilling prophesies through the Law of Attraction.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“If you think you'll always let people down, that's all you'll ever do, I said.”
― Julia Claiborne Johnson, Be Frank With Me

“A master of deception can turn the truth into a lie using self-fulfilling prophecies.”
― R.J. Intindola

“Whenever you begin to conclude, "I can't win," and "What's the use?" you've set yourself up for failure. Your pessimism becomes a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“It is true, however, that a dictator's problem is a self-fulfilling prophecy: precisely because he reserves the right of decision for himself, he soon finds himself required to decide everything.”
― John Vincent Palatine, The Little Drummer Boy

“Spiritual skepticism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You will not witness that which you do not believe to be real. One cannot expect to have profound personal experiences of something you’re convinced does not exist.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“The failures of our parents may become our burden, but it is our choice to continue carrying it onward into the next generation or put it down. My adopted beliefs were my written script for living, and I played it out like a self-fulfilling prophecy. As I moved toward healing, I learned unconscious patterns can change once brought into awareness.”
― Oriana Allen, The Truth in Our Scars: Untangling Trauma to Discover Your Secret Self

“The fact that one person imagines a "well-behaved" present and the other a predetermined future does not mean that they therefore fold their arms and become spectators (the former expecting that the present will continue, the latter waiting for the already "known" future to come to pass). On the contrary, closing themselves into "circles of certainty" from which they cannot escape, these individuals "make" their own truth. It is not the truth of men and women who struggle to build the future, running the risks involved in this very construction. Nor is it the truth of men and women who fight side by side and learn together how to build this future—which is not something given to be received by people, but is rather something to be created by them. Both types of sectarian, treating history in an equally proprietary fashion, end up without the people—which is another way of being against them.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“In order to break your child’s negative cycle, you must first break your own cycle of negative perception. You must take on a strengths-based perspective. Look for the good, which in some cases may require you to get creative. Do this even when it’s hard. This sends a powerful message to children even when they are behaving poorly. You are sending the message that you believe in them, you see that there is more to them than their bad behavior, and you are painting a future picture of what they can become.”
― Daniel Bates, When Parenting Backfires: Twelve Thinking Errors that Undermine Parents Effectiveness

“We live what we create. We create what we live.”
― Mommy Moo Moo

“The common thread in Asimov's robot stories is a self-fulfilling prophecy. That being afraid of science and technology leads us to acting in ways that are detrimental to ourselves and society. Or, to indvertently hand over control to people who want to misuse it, simply by our refusal to understand it.
[James Portnow, Extra Credits. Asimov Summary]”
― James Portnow Extra Credits

“By his love, he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. By his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“Find a way to use all bricks along your road to awesome, even if some of those bricks were thrown at you.”
― Donavan Nelson Butler, MSG, US Army Retired

“Remember, you are not getting what you want in life. Instead, you will get what you are. If you constantly think about lack and scarcity, you will attract more of them.”
― Sam Izad, Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas

“Assumptions write the ending
before the story even begins.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“while trying something new is never a guarantee of success—the act of not trying is sure to guarantee failure.”
― Sally M. Winston, Overcoming Anticipatory Anxiety: A CBT Guide for Moving past Chronic Indecisiveness, Avoidance, and Catastrophic Thinking

“Is failure part of his DNA?

See, the world has utterly FAILED him. Doesn't it stand to reason that his standard is so high that he can't help but FAIL himself?

To be so relentlessly driven that FAILURE is met violently, well, it must be tiring.”
― Brian Azzarello, Batman: Damned