“We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.”
Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist
Anita's musings on Richard, the reluctant werewolf; unidentified edition/page
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Narcissus In Chains (2001)
700 Inspiring Guides to a New Life
“We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.”
Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist
Anita's musings on Richard, the reluctant werewolf; unidentified edition/page
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Narcissus In Chains (2001)
“To the extent that we try to be like others, we convert ourselves into zombies.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929) Filmmaker and comics writer
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Context: Many people effectively stop carrying out what it's called "life's a movie." The majority of people want to be like others, and this drives them to a death in life. It is necessary to find what distinguishes us from others in order to be something. To the extent that we try to be like others, we convert ourselves into zombies.
“Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
As attributed in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 624