Centered Quotes

393 quotes by 308 authors

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need… — Oprah Winfrey
This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me. — Julia Quinn
There are some things about myself I canâ€™t explain to anyone. There are some things I donâ€™t understand at all. I canâ€™t tell what I… — Haruki Murakami
The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And… — Lois McMaster Bujold
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents… — Upton Sinclair
We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that… — John Piper
You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your… — Judith McNaught
I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man's body, although I'd appreciate it if you didn't quote… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and… — Shunryu Suzuki
We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He… — Christopher Hitchens
How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts… — Sue Monk Kidd
A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by a Presence completely… — Sue Monk Kidd
Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have… — David Foster Wallace
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which… — Nick Flynn
When you trust in the Lord, when you are willing to let your heart and your mind be centered in His will, when you ask… — Richard G. Scott
Then she did see it there - just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed the hair… — Robert Bloch
sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go… — Haruki Murakami
Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out… — Anne Lamott
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. Thatâ€™s because we typically begin at the wrong starting pointâ€”ourselves. We… — Rick Warren
Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the… — Bill Bryson

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