Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
You can never hope to pick yourself up if your always bringing yourself down. — Alexa Michalec Copy Share Image
“The solution to self-pity is found in the labor of selfless giving to others.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Beating yourself up about a mistake you made is only going to make you more inclined to do it again. Just accept… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
“I suppose I should have died right then from pure misery and self-pity, but if those things were fatal, no one would… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
“I'm going to Hell in a basket Weaved in from my sins, Like wicker With little Wiccan ties As if I'm a… — Matthew Little Copy Share Image
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our problems that we created ourselves, are often not as great, as our problems that are created beyond our control. — John Reyes Copy Share Image
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“While in Aspen, I was on a panel one evening with Andre Dubus III, who spoke of what happens when a memoir… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I don't find it funny, I just think self-pity's probably not the answer.' ‘It’s not self-pity, it’s the facts.’ ‘My life is… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“What's knocking on your door...opportunities to succeed or opportunities to fail? Times may get tough, life may not be fair, but never… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning.… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
There are two aspect of life. One is evil.Protect yourself from self destructive evil like anger, jealousy,arrogance, false pride, self pity &… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I think there must be probably different types of suicides. I'm not one of the self-hating ones. The type of like "I'm… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
