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,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
I choose¦to live by choice, not by chance. To make changes, not excuses. To be motivated, not manipulated. To be useful, not… — Babloo Copy Share Image
Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it;… — Kenneth Roberts Copy Share Image
“There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It]… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then,… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
“Anything would be better than these blotches coloured with self-pity and self-importance. Plagued scribbles that sink the heart and darken the soul.… — Marcel M. du Plessis Copy Share Image
Don't compare yourself to other people. It won't help. You'll only find what you expect to find. If you think you're weak,… — Samantha Skye Copy Share Image
The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
“Anger and shame laced with loneliness spread throughout her, heating her to the core. Self-pity wasn’t something Bess would normally succumb to,… — Inger Iversen Copy Share Image
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… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Although they understand their position as sons and daughters of God, they are tied up in knots, bound by a terrible feeling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My calculations about how to stay alive and sane on this particular planet have clearly been at fault. Lots of people are… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My heart has been broken, shattered and abused, but I don't wallow in self pity about It. I know I have been… — Blondie Copy Share Image
“I have cried over myself a hundred times this summer, she thought, I have wept over my big feet and my skinny… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
“Only a teaspoon of self-pity, girl. Every day give yourself a teaspoonful, but only a teaspoonful. Fill it up full, but only… — Breena Clarke Copy Share Image
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“When we cry for people we’ve lost, it’s not out of sympathy, because of course we know that they’re free from pain… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
“Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed… — Francis de Sale Copy Share Image
![“Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.” quote by Eugene H. Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/00c/eugene-h-peterson-1745_addict_pity-is-one-of-the-noblest-emotions-avai_2020581.jpg)
