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Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do. — Bryant McGill

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

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness. — Goswami Kriyananda

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself. — Shannon L. Alder

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me. — Julia Quinn

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

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. — John Templeton

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

Why do you like me more when I was prouder and wilder, more full of words, yet emptier? — Friedrich Holderlin

Secondly, I've always harbored a deep fear of appearing to be selfish or self-centered. Finally, — Nate Terrell

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully. — Mother Teresa

The assumption of 'rights' is the cancer of privilege. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I'm my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

No behaviour on our part is more self-centered than the demand to speak and the refusal to listen. — Robert E. Fisher

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

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

There is a big difference between being centered and being self-centered — Lolly Daskal

We all get self-centered. — Laura Schlessinger

Our flesh takes over when we decide to be self-centered instead of self-sacrificing. Then there is Satan. God — Stormie O'martian

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. — Mother Teresa

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. — Gary Chapman

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being. — Taylor Swift

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. — George Bernard Shaw

Five of the most dangerous words I know: 'What's in it for me? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody. — Anthony Kiedis

Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays. — E.B. White

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit. — John C. Maxwell

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is. — D. A. Carson

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support. — Diana Wynne Jones

Merridale was as self-centered as a Broadway star on opening night. — Chet Williamson

Hell needed horribly bright, self-centered people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage — Terry Pratchett

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race. — Jessica Capshaw

Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire. — Frederick Lenz

Actors are inherently self-centered. — Bryan Cranston

as self-centered as a tornado, — Terry Pratchett

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself. — Oswald Chambers

You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist. — Zig Ziglar

Our self-centered acts in turn cause us unhappiness and a tendency to repeat our nonvirtuous behavior, thereby producing more misery. — Dalai Lama XIV

I was always too self-centered and irresponsible to have kids. I know that never stopped many others, but I am a narcissist with a conscience. — Debbie Kasper

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. — Will Arnett

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. — Wojciech Kurtyka

I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people. — Ellen Greene

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. — Bill Lee

You should win an award or something for most compassionate student. No, wait. I mean the most self-centered dipshit award." Her — Samantha Young

I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory ... — Jim Shaw

The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered. — Mason Cooley

It is sad when people only use their connections & resources for themselves. How very self-centered. Use your platform to help others. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered. — Matthew Perry

Most strong players are completely self-centered ... They are blind to how other people feel or else simply don't care. — Joel Lautier

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. — John Templeton

Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.
I self-center you more than ever. — Sasa Stanisic

Because you deserved it! Because you should know what it feels like! How bad it hurts, you self-centered asshole! — Sylvia Day

Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' they are. — Donna Lynn Hope

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. — Mother Teresa

Half the time he seems self-centered, the other half it's like he lives solely for Ben. — Jay Bell

This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends. — John Irving

Maybe I'm a little callous, a little insensitive, a little self-centered, but hey, that's how I roll. — Lindy Zart

If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

You will find your true spirit when you lose your egocentric, self-centered desires and fill your mind with pure love and non-judgmental thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered. — Joyce Meyer

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. — Aristotle.

Trading the markets is a totally self-centered activity. Nobody's life gets better because you trade. Except your broker's life. — Robert Rolih

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. — William Damon

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. — Mother Teresa

Authenticity is our natural state of being. The authentic self is a state of being where we are centered, creative, adaptive, and inspired. — Henna Inam

Our need for social and personal change and power is often co-opted and trivialized into an adolescent and self-centered kind of rebellion. — Jean Kilbourne

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered. — Criss Jami

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... He had an overpowering personality. — Gian-Carlo Rota

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

As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish. — Jaida Jones

Greed is the fast-track to poverty. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have never counted on someone to take care of my emotions for me. — Mary Mihalic

Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations. — Jean Craighead George

Don't ask for a cig' - I'm so self-centered, I won't even share this cancer. — Joe Budden

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry. — Denis Leary

Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it. — Kevin DeYoung

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. — Billy Graham

When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve. — James H. Austin

The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love isn't self-centered, even at the supreme scale. — John K. Brown

If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway. — David Nicholls

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway. — Kent M. Keith

As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man. — Sunday Adelaja

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

Because of the interdependent nature of everything, we cannot hope to solve the multifarious problems with a one-sided or self-centered attitude. — Dalai Lama XIV

The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

For most men the world is centered in self, which is misery: to have one's world centered in God is peace. — Donald Hankey

Like most nobility, he was self-centered as a gyroscope — Patrick Rothfuss

I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon. — Barry Goldwater

God knows us in all our conniving, self-centered, and jealousy-laden splendor and loves us anyway. — Tullian Tchividjian

Our lives should not be self-centered and static; rather, they should be others-centered and active, making a difference for the kingdom of God. — Wendy Blight

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. — Thornton Wilder

Our current societal construct demonstrates we are uncaring and largely self-centered beings driven only by our own needs — Bryant McGill

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe, — Chuck Palahniuk

From where I'm sitting,
I AM the centre of the Universe! — Sebastyne Young

Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people. — Karen C. Eddington