The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“no one is truly successful because they are delusional, self-absorbed,” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
My self portrait shows a man that the wealth tortured, self-absorbed with his own self-forfeit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed. — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
You'll continue to be a bitch no matter what, but I'm glad you aren't a callous, self-absorbed one. — Genna Rulon Copy Share Image
“There is more to stuttering than the mere repetition of words and phrases. And more to anxiety than just being nervous.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
“He looked at her for a moment, amazed. "How did you know that? How can a servant girl like you understand so… — Y.S. Lee Copy Share Image
I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed,… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Kyra." Fred caught Kyra's eyes. "I'm not in love with Ariana and I don't want half the kingdom." "You don't?" He shook… — Bridget Zinn Copy Share Image
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
“Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person’s pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denial, games, jealousy or… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The irony is that their enthusiasm for personal revelation can backfire badly and have the opposite effect. People become their own worst… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself,… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
“The universe of his own feelings keeps crowding everyone else's out. It is a constant struggle to see other people as people,… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“He told me things about himself that should have made him sound urbane but did the opposite. He told me, for example,… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“How embarrassing. Give me needy emotional whining bullshit. Flash. Give me self-absorbed egocentric twaddle. Christ. Fuck me, I'm so tired of being… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
“Linton did not appear to remember what she talked of and he had evidently great difficulty in sustaining any kind of conversation.… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
“Everything you do or say interests me." "Really," she said skeptically. "What about Lord Westcliff's claim that I'm shallow and self-absorbed?" As… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what… — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
