Self Centered Quotes - Page 2

• Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

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• There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

  Timothy Keller

  Self, Interesting, Miserable

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.21, Penguin

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• Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, Self, Evil

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• Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

  D. A. Carson

  Prayer, Our World, Self

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.98, Baker Academic

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• People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Honesty, Self, Years

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• Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

  Donald Trump

  Real, Healthy, Ego

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Dec 09, 2013

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• Actors are inherently self-centered.

  Bryan Cranston

  Self, Actors

  "Why the Dad from Malcolm in the Middle Knows So Much About Meth". Interview with Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. March 4, 2009.

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• The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.

  Rick Warren

  Dream, Ambition, Self

  Rick Warren (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”

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• If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Selfish, People, Goodness And Kindness

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

  Thornton Wilder

  Faith, Children, Self

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Attachment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Nature, Self

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.153, 谷月社

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• It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

  Aristotle

  Justice

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• Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.

  Drake

  Success, Wall, Humble

  Song: Asthma Team Freestyle

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• If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Self Esteem

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• One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

  Billy Collins

  Self, Differences, Poetry

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• I met a new girl at a barbecue, very pretty, a blond I think. I don't know, her hair was on fire, and all she talked about was herself. You know these kind of girls: 'I'm hot. I'm on fire. Me, me, me.' You know. 'Help me, put me out.' Come on, could we talk about me just a little bit?

  Garry Shandling

  Girl, Selfish, Thinking

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• The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world.

  John Mott

  Christian, Spiritual, Self

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

  Gary Chapman

  Thinking, Self, World

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• If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Self, Mind, Lasts

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.18, Modern Library

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• It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

  Terry Fox

  Cancer, Helping Others, Self

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it's a point of no return. After that, you can never go back to completely self-centered living.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Self, Giving, Return

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.1, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Small Problems, Self

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• Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Narcissistic, Too Much

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.

  Dalai Lama

  Distance, Loneliness, Self Confidence

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