“I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.”
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Famous Mason Cooley Quotes
“An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.”
“After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.”
“Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.”
“Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.”
“Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.”
“Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.”
“My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.”
“Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.”
“Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?”
“People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.”
“When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.”
“I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.”
“Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.”
“If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.”
“Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.”
“Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.”
“Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.”
“Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.”
“Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.”
“The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.”
“The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.”
“Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.”
“True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.”
“The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.”