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• Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

  Carrie Fisher

  Regret, Mistake, Self

  "Carrie Fisher on how George Lucas stole her identity". www.newsweek.com. December 27, 2016.

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• Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Self, Choices, Up To You

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue a spiritual way of living in the world, you must be lighthearted and carefree, have humor, be able to tolerate ambiguity and embrace uncertainty, and be forgiving of yourself and everybody else.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Thinking, Self

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• When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in toxic emotions such as regret, resentment, and self-pity. Non-nurturing habits such as overeating and not exercising take hold. The feedback loop between your mind and your body turns negative, and stress can hit you instantaneously or grind away at you day after day.

  Deepak Chopra

  Regret, Stress, Exercise

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• There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

  Timothy Keller

  Real, Responsibility, Self

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• Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what I did with my poetry, ask people to feel sorry for me. I got sober and I realized I have to get out of the pity thing; it's not going anywhere for me. I don't want to have any self-pity.

  Bucky Sinister

  Sorry, Play, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Loving Life, Self, Suffering

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• You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

  Og Mandino

  Grief, Ignorance, Lynching

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.2, Bantam

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• It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

  Chris Hardwick

  Self, Next, Pity

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• Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-​pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-​absorption without self-​awareness.

  Leslie Jamison

  Sarcastic, Hurt, Clever

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• Valentines Day is a day we celebrate real love. A love so strong that two hearts become one. Yeah, when you're happy, she's happy. And when you're angry, she's angry. And when you start wallowing in self-pity because your hotrod shop tanks and everybody's against you so you start drinking. And then she moves out and goes and lives with her parents, pfft. Or was that the day after Valentines Day? Doesn't matter. I'll go get another one just like her.

  Christopher Titus

  Valentines Day, Strong, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.

  A. E. Housman

  Air, Earth, Tomorrow

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.143, Delphi Classics

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• It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game

  Jose Mourinho

  Games, Play, Two

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• Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Strong, Believe, Self

  "Gather Together in My Name". Book by Maya Angelou, p. 17, 1974.

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• Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

  Mason Cooley

  Sympathy, Self, Pity

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• Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Guilt, Pity

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• Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

  Jacques Barzun

  Self, Loving You, Adults

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

  Willa Gibbs

  Self, Essentials, Teeth

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• If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Trying, Pity

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• Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

  Mason Cooley

  Self, People, Satisfaction

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• I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.

  Garrison Keillor

  Mother, Cheer, Sorry

  Garrison Keillor (1998). “Wobegon Boy”, p.9, Penguin

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• Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Disappointment, Mean, Writing

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• Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Cancer, Heart

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• Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Self, Luxury, Pity

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Bingo”, p.280, Bantam

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• Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

  Oscar Levant

  Self, Pity

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