“No one can make you a victim but yourself.”

“Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved?
-Lena Kaligaris”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”

Alan Dean Foster (1946) American fiction writer

“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”

Edward Said (1935–2003) Professor of English and literature

“If you mean Mr. Weston to be one of your victims," said I, with affected indifference, "you will have to make such overtures yourself that you will find it difficult to draw back when he asks you to fulfil the expectations you have raised.”

Anne Brontë book Agnes Grey

“If you remove yourself far enough from the limited point of view of pain, you will see that we are all nothing but the victims of victims.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

Harvey Fierstein (1954) actor from the United States

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

“Are you enviable? How can you make yourself enviable?”

Harry Beckwith