People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their ‘self.’ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.
There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can impose their will on other people. Whatever bad reason they use to persuade others, these self-centered people are so caught up in the process that it seems to them all they have to do is to speak their wishes in a lofty and commanding tone of voice in order to convince everybody.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The worlds smallest package is a person wrapped up in themselves.
You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.
Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.
A compassionate attitude helps you communicate more easily with your fellow human beings. As a result, you make more genuine friends and the atmosphere around you is more positive, which gives you greater inner strength. This inner strength helps you spontaneously concern yourself with others, instead of thinking only about yourself.
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.
When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.
There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.
Humility does not mean to think yourself less, but to less think of yourself.
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.
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.
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