Centeredness Quotes
43 quotes by 41 authors
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the territory of compassion. You've met…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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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 contrary.
— John C. Broger
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God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness,…
— Marva Dawn
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The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far…
— Stephen Spender
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Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and…
— James Hillman
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It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure,…
— Arianna Huffington
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We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.
— Mike Huckabee
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Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining…
— E F Schumacher
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The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to…
— Jacque Fresco
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We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be…
— Jacque Fresco
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Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
— Marianne Williamson
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Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You help God from…
— E. Stanley Jones
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Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the…
— Kenny Smith
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One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.
— John C. Maxwell
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The Old Testament records the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The Gospels record the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ our Lord. The…
— Josh McDowell
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The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.
— Max Lucado
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Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the next? The answer:…
— Peter Koestenbaum
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