I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Another reason for the increased self-centeredness of an adolescent is her susceptibility to humiliation. This brazen, defiant creature is also something tender,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Living God's way means putting away your self-centeredness and committing yourself to follow God's Word in spite of any feelings to the… — John C. Broger Copy Share Image
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so… — Olivia Manning Copy Share Image
“They turned on the television and saw some news story about another goddamn humanitarian crisis, another goddamn civil war in some godforsaken… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When I awaken in the morning, I am thankful for a new day. I am thankful for everything that I have materially.… — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self,… — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image
“The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“Cultivate the understanding that the self is not really an independently existing entity, and begin to view self instead in terms of… — His Holiness the Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
