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… — Jay Presson Allen Copy Share Image
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to life. Selfishness always… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I'd rather be on this side of the camera. I feel more comfortable. I'd rather keep myself centered and keep my ego… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Self-esteem, most of the time make most of us self-centered, selfish and blind to realize and understand the facts… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
“Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Vain people can't bear to be crossed. They are the center of their world, and if circumstances don't allow the world to… — Judith Flanders Copy Share Image
I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“ To be in a state of nirvana means to ignore greed, selfishness, anger and other distracting emotions. It is, in a… — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
“I think I have to take issue with you on that,” the Archbishop responded. “The people who go around becoming bullies are… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Does anyone else realize how bad earth has become? How self-centered ppl r? Where have the fighters gone too? Is courage now… — Kat Copy Share Image
My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
“Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point of egoism. Must I not yield even to my interest… — Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The biggest weakness of a person is not being selfish, amorous, wild or egotistical, but stubbornly loving someone who doesn't love you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't care about other people's problems anymore and I am really self centered and hate doing favors for people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
If people weren't so selfish, self-centered and actually cared about others I believe this world would be an amazing place. But naw… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered”… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
Too much involvement with one's feeling [is destructive]. If they have too much self-centered feelings, they get in trouble. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“The ego we see most commonly goes by a more casual definition: an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Arrogance. Self-centered ambition.… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“The problem with being self-centered, as we humans are, is that sometimes we miss the obvious solutions when the effect on us… — Robert J. Crane Copy Share Image
Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“pitch. This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Too much self-centered thinking is the source of suffering. A compassionate concern for others’ well-being is the source of happiness.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image