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Inner Conflict Quotes

"Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id."
Sigmund Freud
"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."
Theodore Roosevelt
"I'm not the person I'd like to be, but I try to be someone I could like."
George Clooney
"If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you — until you get your revenge."
Muhammad Ali
"Part of me feels like I've been striving for approval so hard I don't even know who I'm doing it for anymore"
Eminem
"Inner conflict is a result of an unsolved encounter between conflicting ideas, impulses, or motives"
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
"I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean"
Lana Del Rey
"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity"
David Goggins
"Healing and nourishment will not be possible if we are at war with ourselves or society."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate"
Socrates
"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."
Albert Camus
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself"
Samuel Johnson
"The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back"
Ram Dass
"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."
Haruki Murakami
"I'm somewhere between heaven and hell"
Jelly Roll
"Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found."
Eminem
"Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it – which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don’t know."
Paulo Coelho
"Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say yes” to life?"
Paulo Coelho