“All dharma teachings agree on one point—lessening one’s self-absorption” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.” — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“I don’t really see it as a deliberate skill but a passive response to a lack of self-absorption.” — Sheri Richey Copy Share Image
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
“It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.” — William Raymond Manchester Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems. — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal… — Adelyn Birch Copy Share Image
I am not the center of the universe. And it's a lesson that I keep having to learn; it's my ongoing work,… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
“I have too much free time. Free time makes people think; thinking makes people morbidly self-absorbed; and unless you are watertight and… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
“Jealousy appears to be a redoubtable pitfall for love, on the toll road of self-absorption and unshareability. When love has to remain… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“Honestly, Bessie? People don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't notice anything. They are never looking at what's interesting. They're always… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The fragmentation of our awareness may trigger dizzying vertigo in the chaos of our living. As such, an overwhelming flurry of connectivity… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“As long as we live, our self-absorption and our insecurity will walk together, holding hands and swinging them back and forth like… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“I am talking about self absorbtion. If you think about it, the human race is pretty self absorbed. Racism might be the… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“We can put it this way: the man who has faith is the man who is no longer looking at himself and… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Witnessing the panoply of beauty in all of nature takes us out of our shell of self-absorption and makes us realize that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Do not watch yourself too closely. Do not draw over-rapid conclusions from what is happening to you. Simply let it happen. Otherwise… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.” — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
