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“Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.”

“Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.”

Thinking Men May Self Motivation Fall Space Existence Perception Standards Regard Supreme Traps Equations Time And Space Inclination Self Centered Axioms Expediency

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.”

People Self Degrees Explaining Self Centered

Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!”

Source: God, How Can I Live?

“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.”

People World Self Individual Dying Sake Cancer Unhappy Cells Self Centered Happy People Precious Things Unhappy People

Author:K.P. Yohannan

“Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.”

Self Sin Pride Shame Lifestyle Indulgence Self Centered Emblems Self Indulgence

Author:Billy Graham

“Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.”

Ifs Art Self Actors Behinds Havens Objects Paper Mediums Painter Canvas Self Centered

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it's a point of no return. After that, you can never go back to completely self-centered living.”

Giving Self Felt Return Willingness Self Centered Reservations

Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace

Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace

“To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.”

Self Done Seems Action Prayer Powerful Healing Failing Universal Gods Will Appeals Most Powerful Living Things Self Centered Bidding Universal Love Powerful Prayer Love Never Fails

Book:Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

“A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.”

Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

“Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.”

World May Self Prayer Our World Our Prayers Self Centered

Book:A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers

Source: A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers

“When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.”

Self Brain Innate Self Centered Objectivity Inappropriate Subjectivity

Book:Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen

Source: Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen

“I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.”

Self Fellows Impressed Self Centered Musings

Author:Gore Vidal

“Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.”

Ifs Firsts Self Speak Language Conversation Cat Complicated Self Centered Initiate

Author:Jean Craighead George

“We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts. The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.”

Thinking Giving Persons Self Attention Situation Our Lives Strength Caught Fixed Upset Self Centered

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“People are just self-centered-it's all about them. And we're telling people it's okay to be 'all about you' because you're a victim and it's not your fault. That's why society has gotten more and more belligerent and selfish.”

People Self Okay Victim Faults Selfish Self Centered

Author:Jim Norton

“Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.”

Want Should Self Moments Lasts Desire Practice Impossible Serious Prepared Bows Be Prepared Want U Self Centered True Nature

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away”

“My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.”

Self Father White Generations Mines Grew Grew Up Ignorant Eras Being Yourself Self Centered Complacent

Book:Riding Toward Everywhere

Source: Riding Toward Everywhere

“Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.”

Needs Self States Nations United United States Policy Focused Allies Foreign Policy Self Centered

Author:Elliott Abrams

“The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.”

Self Helping Hands Values Culture Numbers Demand Stress Helping Others Self Centered Extending Adopting Value Systems

Author:Benjamin Carson

“We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God. Our hearts resonate with the idea of enjoying God's grace. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. And while the wonder of grace is worthy of our attention, if that grace is disconnected from its purpose, the sad result is a self-centered Christianity that bypasses the heart of God.”

“We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.”

Self Self Centered Favor Of God

Book:Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

“My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender.”

Humans May Self Christian Purpose Jesus Sin Human Nature Duty Forgiveness Forgiving Uncomfortable Accomplished Self Centered Offenders

Author:Gordon Dalbey

“Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.”

Self Science Too Much Personality Mathematics Lazy Self Centered Overpowering

Author:Gian-Carlo Rota

“I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.”

Self Fantasy Amount One Day Thirds Yeah Actresses Selfishness Self Centered Adjectives Infantile Inconsiderate

Author:Jay Presson Allen

“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”

“I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and just kind of get really me-focused, so I think communication for actors is a big challenge actually.”

People Thinking Kind Self Bigs Actors Challenges Communication Terrible Focused Tendencies Tunes Get Real Self Centered Communicators Big Challenges

Author:Rainn Wilson

“Actors are inherently self-centered. We're trained to focus on who I am. What do I want? Who is in my way? How do I get this? That's how we're trained. Unfortunately, that sometimes spills over into real life. But it's all very subjective. You just try to portray someone beyond the surface, the different layers.”

Way Want Trying Different Real Self Sometimes Actors Focus Surface Real Life Who I Am My Way Layers Subjective Self Centered Spills

Author:Bryan Cranston

“I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.”

Want Humans Ends Self Human Beings Vain Self Centered

Author:Taylor Swift

“Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.”

“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.”

Ifs Self Difficult Results Attitude Doubt Too Much Doors Easier Communicate Compassionate Suspicion Self Centered Narcissistic Wise Man Once Said Self Absorbed Egocentric Social Interaction

Author:Dalai Lama

“We 'rid ourselves of conceptual thought' when, by persistent observation, we recognize the unreality of our self-centered thoughts. Then we can remain dispassionate and fundamentally unaffected by them. That does not mean to be a cold person. Rather, it means not to be caught and dragged around by circumstances.”

Mean Persons Doe Self Cold Circumstances Caught Observation Persistent Self Centered Unreality Dispassionate

Author:Joko Beck

“We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.”

Ifs Self Judging Bases West Theology Imagery Self Centered Pissed Off Love And Relationship Unreachable

Author:William P. Young

“The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who can claim love without meeting any of the obligations of love will be a self-centered child and many such children have grown up in our time to become petulant lovers and sullen marriage partners because the promise of unconditional love has not been fulfilled.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“How self-centered, how arrogant... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches... I was a commodity cheese-atarian.”

Long Self Kids Choices Imagine Privilege Meals Vegetarian Vegan Arrogant Cheese Commodity Self Centered

Author:Sherman Alexie

“I do my job, and I do what I’m paid to do and I’m always prepared. I prepare by learning the text so well that when I show up, I’m relaxed and the performance sort of happens. Now whether that’s good or bad, I don’t know... Whatever I say is going to sound very egocentric and self centered anyway so I’d better shut up.”

Knows Wells Self Shows Jobs Sound Paid Prepared Focused Shut Up Relaxed Self Centered Egocentric

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it.”

Should I Can Self Hard Seems Our Lives Victory Should Have Selfish Over It Temper Impatient Self Centered

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their lives matter - self-centered means of numbing the questions of mattering. Culture has relapsed back into the self-aggrandizing, glorifying answers that the Athenians had presumed, which had Socrates railing against them until he got so annoying that they killed him.”

People Way Feels Mean Self Matter Fall Culture Social Answers Media Social Media Our Society Annoying Consumerism Promoting Self Centered Numbing Athenians

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.”

People Thinking Self Seems Pain Culture Too Much Plates Self Centered

Author:Marc Maron

“It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.”

People Self Selfish Self Centered Being Selfish

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature. The ultimate single-minded, self-centered creature is a cancer cell. And mostly, we're not made up of cancer cells.”

Trying Humans Mean Made Self Human Nature Creatures Ultimate Cancer Cells Self Centered Self Absorbed

Author:George Lucas

“As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.”

Self Light Girl Powerful Type Personality Ideals Skins Calm Self Centered Like Her

Author:Yesung

“Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.”

Self Philosophy Political Next Politics Winning Term Election Governing Self Centered Term Limits

Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“I am for the animals, I couldn't care less about your need to eat animals, wear them, shoot them or exploit them. Too bad if you consider it suffering to let all that self-centered and traditional bullshit stop you from having the will to help the animals.”

Ifs Needs Self Helping Care Suffering Animal Traditional Vegetarian Vegan Bullshit Exploits Self Centered

Author:Rikki Rockett

“The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.”

Self Guy Self Centered Egotistical Yankees Baseball Being Self Centered

Author:Bill Lee

“I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.”

Years Self Eye Young Next Felt Ten Abuse Available Experiments Self Centered Seventeen

Author:Robert Reed

“We learn by watching. That's what concerns me a little about the society we're in now because so much of what we're watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason.”

Littles Self Reason Talent Becoming Concern No Reason Entitled Self Centered Brat Very Famous

Author:Laura Benanti

“This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.”

Doe Ends Self Use Self Centered

Book:A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory.”

I Can Self Remember Names Memories Terrible Self Centered

Author:Jim Shaw

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