Preoccupation Quotes

152 quotes by 135 authors

...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered… — Wilkie Collins
In a way, her strangeness, her naivetÃ©, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she… — Toni Morrison
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we… — Iris Murdoch
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large.… — Daniel Goleman
...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and… — David Foster Wallace
Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults… — Paul Brunton
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have… — Adam Phillips
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. — Oscar Wilde
She took kisses like so many coats of paint [â€¦] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if… — Lawrence Durrell
I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to… — John Ortberg
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation. — John Ortberg
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything,… — Aldous Huxley
â€¦but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth:… — Simone de Beauvoir
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society. — Alan Paton
The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her… — Steven Pressfield
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom. — Bernard Crick
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. — Khalil Gibran
Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or… — Eric Hoffer
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He… — H.G. Wells

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