Self Centered Quotes - Page 5

• We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective and from being internal to external.

  Josh McDowell

  Self, Gone, Truth Is

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• We all get self-centered.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Self

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• I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Believe, Land

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.117, Beacon Press

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• Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.

  David James Duncan

  Religious, Brave New World, Self

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.320, Dial Press

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• Too much involvement with one's feeling [is destructive]. If they have too much self-centered feelings, they get in trouble.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Self, Feelings, Too Much

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated ego.” Without love, we are self-centered, but love enables us to move the center of our lives outside our ego. Therefore it expands our lives and, needless to say, enriches it. Any human being would give anything to love or be loved. When it really happens, it is like heaven on earth.

  Huston Smith

  Moving, Love Is, Self

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• As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.

  Yesung

  Girl, Powerful, Light

  "Date with Super Junior - Interview with Yesung". "Date with" Magazine Interview, Volume 1 (translated), May 29, 2013.

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• I am for the animals, I couldn't care less about your need to eat animals, wear them, shoot them or exploit them. Too bad if you consider it suffering to let all that self-centered and traditional bullshit stop you from having the will to help the animals.

  Rikki Rockett

  Animal, Self, Bullshit

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• I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

  Robert Reed

  Eye, Self, Years

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• Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.

  Tom Coburn

  Philosophy, Winning, Self

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

  Richard Condon

  Lonely, Self

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• We learn by watching. That's what concerns me a little about the society we're in now because so much of what we're watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason.

  Laura Benanti

  Self, Littles, Becoming

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I always have a feeling of awe and wonder at what God can do - using me as an instrument. I believe that anyone who is fully surrendered to God's will can be used gloriously - and will really know some things - and will probably be called self-righteous. You're called self-righteous if you are self-centered enough to think you know everything - but you may also be called self-righteous by the immature if you are God-centered enough to really know some things.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Believe, Thinking, Self

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.126, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

  Timothy Keller

  Father, Mean, Son

  "The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith".

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• They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Hurt, Selfish, Thinking

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I love to put on frequency music or binaural beats to keep myself centered. It helps me with mental clarity, and it gives me a moment to breathe and be present.

  Syesha Mercado

  Giving, Helping, Clarity

  "American Idol’s Syesha Mercado: On Honesty, Acceptance, and Being Present". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God’s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Keys, Self, Wish

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.49, David C Cook

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• An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Self, Ego

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Moving, Mutual Benefit

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• Unfortunately, daily routine is the last thing I have with all three kids, family life, work, foundation, and the amount of travel that I do! So truly, what I try to do to keep myself centered is take breaths in between and before I start a new thing throughout the day.

  Camila Alves

  Kids, Trying, Lasts

  "Camila Alves: On What Inspires Her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Loneliness, Self

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• Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

  Laozi

  Self, Achievement, Greed

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• This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.

  David Foster Wallace

  Self, Lenses, Matter

  David Foster Wallace (2009). “This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

  Timothy Keller

  Law, May, Strategy

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.14, Penguin

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• Don't ask for a cig' - I'm so self-centered, I won't even share this cancer.

  Joe Budden

  Cancer, Rap, Self

  Song: 40 Licks

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