Preoccupation Quotes

152 Preoccupation quotes by 135 unique authors

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 […] 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
…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
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an… — Eckhart Tolle
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. — Eric Hoffer
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record. — Roger Bannister
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. — Fritz Lang
The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of… — Scott Turow
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent. — John Ortberg
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout. — Edmund Wilson
Take benefit of five before five: Your youth before your old age, Your health before your sickness, Your wealth before your poverty, Your free-time before… — Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle intense passion, always… — Johnny Luckett
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. Maybe… — Robert Morgan

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