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“Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.”

Self Gratitude Pity Preacher Thankful Being Thankful Self Pity Flushing Dialysis

“I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.”

Ifs World Want Self Used Purpose Asks Perspective Devil Pity Self Pity Hindrance Using Me Great Person

Author:Oswald Chambers

“Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.”

May Self Sometimes Shows Suffering Force Shapes Blame Pity Loving Life Self Pity

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity”

Self Form Courses Talking Pity Self Pity Flattering

Book:The Book of My Lives

Source: The Book of My Lives

“Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-absorption without self-awareness.”

“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”

People Self Pity Self Pity Unattractive

Book:Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness

Source: Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness

“If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.”

Ifs Feels Self Sometimes Feelings Problem Would Be Hate Difficult Sorry Pity Self Pity Hate Myself

Author:Julie Nixon Eisenhower

“Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.”

Earth Air Tomorrow Pity Self Pity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game”

Two Play Three Games Pity Self Pity Bad Games

Author:Jose Mourinho

“I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue a spiritual way of living in the world, you must be lighthearted and carefree, have humor, be able to tolerate ambiguity and embrace uncertainty, and be forgiving of yourself and everybody else.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Self Able Spiritual Turns Importance Embrace Forgiving Pity Pursue Uncertainty Mask Tolerate Seriousness Ambiguity Self Pity Self-importance Carefree

Author:Deepak Chopra

“You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.”

Way Needs Self Choices Grief Poverty Ignorance Shame Pity Better Ways Self Pity Way To Live Lynching Wallowing

Book:A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.”

Self Winning Sound Emotion Ugly Pity Self Pity Sour Cloaks Whining

Author:Og Mandino

“Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”

Doe Self Stage Positive Pity Uncomfortable Feathers Self Pity Mattresses

Author:Maya Angelou

“Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.”

Ifs World Self Used Purpose Devil Pity Self Pity

Book:Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

“Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.”

Self Dark Defeat Dare Pity Refuge Self Pity

Author:Guy Finley

“I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.”

Writing Self Moments Song Stuff Share Pity Miserable Disgusting Self Pity Bummer

Author:Jason Mraz

“Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.”

Ends Self Turns Choices Pity Up To You Self Pity Dead Ends

Book:Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul

Source: Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul

“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”

Humans Wisdom Literature Simple Compassion Simplicity Pity Helpful Self Pity Forsake Draught

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.”

Self Mistake Regret Areas Pity Drag Self Pity

Author:Carrie Fisher

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

Ifs Higher Integrity Encouragement Helping Others Inner Peace Lifts Self Pity Niece Higher Ground Lift Me Up

Book:Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

“The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.”

“We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I am struck again by the permanent impassibility of the divide. Some people who have lost a husband or a wife report feeling that person's presence, receiving that person's advice. Some report actual sightings, what Freud described in "Mourning and Melancholia" as "a clinging to the object through the medium of a hallucinatory wishful psychosis." Others describe not a visible apparition but just a "very strongly felt presence."”

“Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.”

Doe Self Appreciate Pity Self Pity Pedantry

Book:Bertie Plays The Blues: 7

Source: Bertie Plays The Blues: 7

“Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.”

Self Matter Faces Common Pride Seeking Pity Selfishness Fulfillment Worldly Gratification Conceit Self Pity Self Fulfillment Self Gratification Selfishness And Pride

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.”

Inspirational I Can Two Self Fear Simple Habit Despair Anxiety Negative Defeat Pity Resolve Hopelessness Overcoming Fear Resignation Self Pity Anxiety And Fear

Author:Napoleon Hill

“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

Needs Writing Self Speak Language Rooms Silence Civilization Despair Heal Pity Self Pity

Author:Toni Morrison

“Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.' 'Why do so many people seem to love righteous indignation?' 'Because if you can prove you're a victim, all rules are off. You can lash out at people. You don't have to be accountable for anything.”

People Ifs Mean Self Seems Growing Up Cutting Growing Prove Adults Victim Patient Quitting Pity Temper Righteous Self Pity Indignation Lashes Righteous Indignation

Book:Humans of New York

Source: Humans of New York

“Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.”

Self Hands Chosen Pity Drag Miscellaneous Self Pity Sinkholes

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.”

Self Pity Self Pity

Author:Oscar Levant

“Self-pity is the simplest luxury.”

Self Pity Luxury Simplest Self Pity

Book:Bingo

Source: Bingo

“Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.”

Self Youth Worship Adults Pity Loving You Self Pity

Book:The House of Intellect

Source: The House of Intellect

“The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.”

Self Essentials Teeth Pity Self Pity

Author:Willa Gibbs

“When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.”

Way Best Way Finding Yourself Melancholy Self Pity

Book:Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance

Source: Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance

“I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.”

Men Feels Mind Wells Mother Dark Taught Sorry Thanks Manners Cheer Cheerful Self Pity Cheer Up Feel Sorry For You Lutherans

Book:Wobegon Boy

Source: Wobegon Boy

“Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.”

Stills Self Winning Voice Sadness Laughter Pity Swim Self Pity Sinking

Author:Joni Mitchell

“When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?”

Should Writing Firsts Doe Self Shows Seems Tears Mercy Oneself Pity Rising Inner Strength Tenderness Flood Autobiography Self Pity

Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

Source: The Diary of a Country Priest

“A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.”

Self Reason Humor Moving Mountain Logic Rage Pity Irony Ironic Penetrate Self Pity Move Mountains Puncture

Book:act one

Source: act one

“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.”

Men Self Able Suffering Christ Accepting Our Lives Hero Cease Pity Planes Self Pity

Author:Corazon Aquino

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