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• Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

  Julia Cameron

  Moving, Inspiration, Exercise

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• You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little.

  Dick Guindon

  Self, Feet, Littles

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• Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is just as cold as you, so you shouldn't complain about it too much. You learn this as a kid, coming home crying from the cold, and Mother looks down and says, 'It's only a little frostbite. You're okay.' And thus you learn to be okay. What's done is done. Get over it. Drink your coffee. It's not the best you'll ever get but it's good enough.

  Garrison Keillor

  Mother, Growing Up, Coffee

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• One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Self, Creative, Emotion

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 28), 1980.

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• It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

  Corazon Aquino

  Hero, Men, Self

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• Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

  Moss Hart

  Self, Irony, Logic

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• If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Integrity, Niece

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.80, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Eye, Self, Soul

  "Strivings of the Negro People" (1897)

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• It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia

  Jennifer Crusie

  Fun, Self, People

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• Be that self which one truly is.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Knowledge, Self, Individuality

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Lovely, Get Up, Pity

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• There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

  Anne Frank

  Inspiring, Self, Laughing

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.186, Bantam

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• There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

  Mike Mills

  Sadness, Self, Work Out

  "Director Mike Mills Exclusive Interview BEGINNERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2011.

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• Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

  Anne Roiphe

  Fun, Mirrors, Self

  Anne Roiphe (2009). “Epilogue: A Memoir”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

  Mitch Albom

  Sorry, Self, People

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.57, Broadway Books

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• I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hurt, Self, Knives

  Charles Bukowski, “Friends Within The Darkness”

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• But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

  Dean Koontz

  Responsibility, Caring, Self

  Dean Koontz (2001). “Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor: Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz”

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• If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Past, Self

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• When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

  Gary Paulsen

  Hurt, Dark, Self

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.

  Rick Yancey

  Hate, Grief, Self

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, Penguin

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• No one really needs me,” he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice...“I do,” I say. “I need you.” He looks upset, takes a deep breath as if to begin a long argument, and that's no good, no good at all, because he'll start going on about Prim and my mother and everything and I'll just get confused. So before he can talk, I stop his lips with a kiss.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Confused, Kissing

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• Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Attitude, Reality, Emotional

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• The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.

  Max Lucado

  Life, God, Christian

  Max Lucado (2008). “Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)”, p.180, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Adversity

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• No one really needs me," he says, and there is no self-pity in his voice. It's true his family doesn't need him. They will mourn him, as will a handful of friends. But they will get on. Even Haymitch, with the help of a lot of white liquor, will get on. I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me. "I do," I say. "I need you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Voice, White, Self

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