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Self-Centeredness  Quotes
The pain of the narcissist is that, to him, everything is really a threat. What doesn’t surrender in reverence is blasphemous to a high opinion of oneself – the burden of self-importance. The narcissist reconstructs...

—Criss Jami

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There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

—Miguel Ruiz

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DistanceEquanimityFreedom
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

—Albert Camus

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Self-ActualizationSelf-CenterednessSelfishness
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We are molding Jesus into our image. He’s beginning to look a lot like us because, after all, that is who we are most comfortable with. The danger now is when we gather in our...

—David Platt

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Pride is nothing more than us highlighting us.

—Kevin Thoman

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PrideSelf-Centeredness
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Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they...

—Unknown Author

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It’s the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

—Ian McEwan

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megan once told me that happiness is getting exactly what you want, but she thinks it’s only what she wants that counts.

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The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.

—Abbe Smith

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How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

—George Eliot

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…the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

—José Saramago

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These illustrations suggest four general maxims[…]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don’t over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don’t...

—Bertrand Russell

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The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

—George F.

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NarcissismSelf-CenterednessSelf-Esteem
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The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.

—Richard Rohr

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Indeed this gentleman’s stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive...

—Charles Dickens

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It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

—Francis Bacon

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Alex Rodriguez seemed not to fit in with the rest of his Yankee teammates. For instance, he wanted a clubhouse attendant personally assigned to him, when there were four or five for the whole team....

—Tom Verducci

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I think myself so terribly ‘clever’ that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I’m ‘cleverly’ creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that the...

—Craig D.

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She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on their hands till their hands grow into feet; then lay their faces on...

—George MacDonald

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Neither apology nor kindness can demolish the wall of hatred when built, by choice, on a base of self-centeredness & from the bricks of ego!

—Ravi Trivedi

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The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

—Craig D.

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All we need to release our inner God is a pulpit and an audience, both of which the Internet supplies in great abundance. Too bad that the corollaly to being in God mode in cyberspace...

—Elias Aboujaoude

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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

—Tullian Tchividjian

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CondemnationGuiltSelf-Centeredness
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In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and this time...

—David Brooks

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There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we...

—Fulton J. Sheen

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When we’re constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

—Seth Adam

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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.

—J.I. Packer

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Cultivate the understanding that the self is not really an independently existing entity, and begin to view self instead in terms of it’s dependent relation to others. Although it is difficult to say that merely...

—Dalai Lama

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Dependant-OriginationOther-CenterednessSelf
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Failure to recognize one’s own absolute significance is equivalent to a denial of human worth; this is a basic error and the origin of all unbelief. If one is so faint-hearted that he is powerless...

—Vladimir S.

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EgoismEvilHuman-Value
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When God interrupts your life, He is calling you to follow Him in a new way. By breaking into your settled pattern, He is moving you to a new place where you can make fresh...

—Colin S.

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white middle-upper class guys in highly educated families have a unique burden placed on us to be the hero of every story that we tell. I don’t think it’s merely that we’re self-centered and arrogant,...

—Morgan Guyton

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