Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. — Mariane Pearl Copy Share Image
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
During a set back, don't sit back in self pity instead tell your heart to beat again! Nothing that happens to you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I felt like I needed to crawl under my blankets. And I did for about an hour. My self-pity always had a… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
I feel like the weight of the world is resting on my shoulders and there is nothing I can do to get… — Anonymous 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
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
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
“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
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
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm just that quiet girl who tries to be nice to everyone, who tries to understand everything, but still cannot escape the… — Kaylynn Thompson Copy Share Image
“Once Ed said to me, "For a very long time I didn't like myself." It was not said in self-pity but simply… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Self-compassion isn't talked about as much as it should be, maybe because it's often confused with its troublesome cousins, self-pity and self-indulgence.… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Everybody is so happy, and no one has a thought for you. And this is what happens to me everywhere and always.… — Joseph von Eichendorff Copy Share Image
We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal… — Mamie Till Copy Share Image
But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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