Best Self Centered Quotes

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.

The worlds smallest package is a person wrapped up in themselves.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

If friends disappoint you over and over, that’s in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren’t going to change simply because you want them to.

As for my ideal type, I like girls who don’t have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I’d like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.

Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.

For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind’s power.

People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I’m explaining me.

Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.

Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try. . . When your life is governed by the divine nature instead of the self-centered nature you have found inner peace.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

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.

I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it’s a point of no return. After that, you can never go back to completely self-centered living.

Are you a slave to your self-centered nature or does your divine nature guide your life? Do you kow that every moment of your life you’re creating through thought? You create your own inner condition; you’re helping create the conditions around you.

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

We all get self-centered.

We learn by watching. That’s what concerns me a little about the society we’re in now because so much of what we’re watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason.

money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered…Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don’t need or care about others; it’s each man for himself

If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they’re selfish, self-centered and egotistical.

Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don’t have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.

Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it’s also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don’t exist.

I don’t want to read more into it than there is. I try not to overanalyze anymore, as it tends to make me self-centered. If there is a deeper message in what happened in the last year and a half, I’m not going to look under every rock for it. Just let God be God.

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.

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

We’ve created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable — that’s not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.

Every type of evil we’ve got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind – that is, of being self-centered.

Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.

Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

The berries. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. If I held them out to save Peeta because I knew I would be shunned if I came back without him, then I am despicable. If I held them out because I loved him, I am still self-centered, although forgivable. But if I held them out to defy the capitol, I am someone of worth. The trouble is, I don’t know exactly what was going on inside me at that moment.