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  • The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

    Faith   Children   Self  
    "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.
  • Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

    Father   Mean   Son  
    "The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith".
  • How self-centered, how arrogant... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches... I was a commodity cheese-atarian.

    Kids   Self   Long  
  • Most strong players are completely self-centered.... They are blind to how other people feel or else simply don't care.

    Strong   Player   Self  
  • It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

    "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. June 2002.
  • The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

  • You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

    Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

    Writing   Self   Stamina  
  • Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just using that as camouflage for our own interests, the self-centered drive for more profits.

    Self   Worry   World  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

  • It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.

    Godly   Self   Order  
    Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.11, Thomas Nelson
  • A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.

    Character   Self   Wish  
    Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.195, New York Review of Books
  • Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.

    Caring   Self   Lasts  
  • My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

    William T. Vollmann (2009). “Riding Toward Everywhere”, p.1, Harper Collins
  • Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.

    Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their lives matter - self-centered means of numbing the questions of mattering. Culture has relapsed back into the self-aggrandizing, glorifying answers that the Athenians had presumed, which had Socrates railing against them until he got so annoying that they killed him.

    Fall   Mean   Self  
    "Interview With Rebecca Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex, Philosophy for the Public, and Everything". Interview with Ophelia Benson, www.butterfliesandwheels.org. March 20, 2014.
  • When we start to talk about gurus, we're talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we're going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.

    Selfish   Views   Talking  
  • People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.

    Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.99, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
  • It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment. Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance. It was definitely tapping into the Dr. Strangelove vibe, which is one of my three top favorite films or all time.

    Revenge   War   Believe  
    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

    Time   Moving   Passion  
    Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”
  • Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

    Strong   Believe   Self  
  • I do my job, and I do what I’m paid to do and I’m always prepared. I prepare by learning the text so well that when I show up, I’m relaxed and the performance sort of happens. Now whether that’s good or bad, I don’t know... Whatever I say is going to sound very egocentric and self centered anyway so I’d better shut up.

    Jobs   Self   Sound  
    "Interview: Anthony Hopkins (The World’s Fastest Indian)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. January 31, 2006.
  • ... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

    Thinking   Self   Skills  
    Cory Doctorow (2015). “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom”, p.75, Booklassic
  • Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.

  • When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it.

    "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.
  • Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.

  • There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.

    Hurt   Thinking   Self  
  • Actors are inherently self-centered. We're trained to focus on who I am. What do I want? Who is in my way? How do I get this? That's how we're trained. Unfortunately, that sometimes spills over into real life. But it's all very subjective. You just try to portray someone beyond the surface, the different layers.

    Real   Self   Who I Am  
    "Why the Dad from Malcolm in the Middle Knows So Much About Meth". Interview with Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. March 4, 2009.
  • I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

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