149 Quotes About Self-centered

I am not a self-centered hedonist. At the same time, I also believe that happiness is the ultimate purpose of life.

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

Often, your level of awareness defines your level of happiness. When we are self-centered, our happiness is transient. When our consciousness is soul-centered, we live in bliss.

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?

I was worried that if I told her the story, she would identify with it too much. That her sympathy, however well-meaning, would make me possessive, angry again. She was always making things personal, seeing only their relationship to her rather than what was complex about them.

I always say that my agenda is sufficiently gracious to leave more than ample room for the agenda of others. But if that’s the case, why is it that such a big room only has space for one chair?

A selfish life is as empty as a candle sitting astride of a grave that is doomed to blow out with the next puff of dry wind.

Putting myself first is in fact putting myself in a position that is anything but first.