"Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness……" — Neal A. Maxwell
"Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow."
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231 Quotes by Neal A. Maxwell
Neal A. Maxwell has 231 quotes on this site.
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At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed…
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During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go…
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If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have…
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The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.
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Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.
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Don't fear, just live right.
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In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
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We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up…
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Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish…
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A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.
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Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for…
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Mother lode of learning.
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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…
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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…
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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…
— 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.…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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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The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to…
— 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…
— 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…
— Jacque Fresco
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