Self Absorbed Quotes

• The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

  Matt Chandler

  World, Miserable, This World

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• 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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• In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

  Chris Barber

  Self, America, Life Is

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• I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

  Diablo Cody

  Mean, Past, Self

  "Diablo Cody Explores The Ugly Side Of Pretty In 'Young Adult'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.

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• An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Success, Beautiful

  "'Careerism and vanity: Sins of the Church'". Vatican Insider Interview, www.lastampa.it. February 24, 2012.

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• Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion

  Margot Anand

  Love Yourself, Mean, Heart

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• If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

  James Taylor

  Thinking, Self, Sentimental

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

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• Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Self, People

  "'Proud non-reader' rapper Kanye West turns author". Interview with Mark Egan, www.reuters.com. May 27, 2009.

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• All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full. They’re too interested in themselves to think about what’s fair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Patience, Eye

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• If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Different, Genius

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

  Charles Saatchi

  Jobs, Artist, Nuts

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Exercise, Agency, Discipline

  FaceBook post by D Todd Christofferson from Feb 06, 2014

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• A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Doors, Self

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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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• 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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• Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.

  Michael Lewis

  Moving, Commitment, Mirrors

  Michael Lewis (1995). “Shame: The Exposed Self”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Self, Servant Of God

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• It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Country

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2013). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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• Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Self, Wicked, Excuse

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• Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

  William Damon

  Kids, Self, Mental Health

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• I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Self, Ego

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• There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

  Debi Mazar

  Hero, Passion, Gun

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle.

  David Sheff

  Struggle, Emotional, Self

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Night, Self

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