{"quotes":[{"text":"Everyone lives a self-centered life...Whether its trivial like what's for breakfast, or more ambitious, like achieving some lofty goal, a person is constantly on her own mind.","author":"T.M. Goeglein","tags":["goals","self-centered"],"id":5730,"author_id":"T.M.+Goeglein"},{"text":"To observe life is not only to organize your internal and external life, but reach to the state, from where, without any effort, both your internal and external life, moves in synchronization.","author":"Roshan Sharma","tags":["consciousness","divine","mind","seer","self-centered"],"id":5763,"author_id":"Roshan+Sharma"},{"text":"If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["blessing","blessings","careless","carelessness","discover","discovered","entitlement","forget","forgetfulness","forgot","forsake","forsaken","greed","ignorance","laziness","lazy","lose","loss","losses","lost","opportunity","owed","possess","possession","privilege","rights","self-centered","selfish","selfishness","stupid","stupidity"],"id":10125,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to.","author":"John Green","tags":["friends","friendship","self-centered"],"id":11135,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"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.","author":"Kathleen Norris","tags":["cereal","community","consumerism","humility","options","preference","self-centered"],"id":27457,"author_id":"Kathleen+Norris"},{"text":"The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["consequences","ego","egocentric","fear","fearful","frightened","frightening","greed","narcissism","narcissistic","outcomes","self-centered","self-centeredness","selfish","selfishness"],"id":35238,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping others, while theirs is filled with helping themselves.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["blind","bravery","courage","devil","ego","evilness","forwarned","hater","hatred","heartless","holy-ghost","honesty","immoral","killer","liars","narcissism","predictions","quality","self-centered","stupidity","the-devil","trust-your-instinct","truthfulness","unchristlike","vanity","villians"],"id":35493,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","bad-decisions","decisions","depravity","ego","egotistical","fallen","foolish","humility","inconsiderate","love","pride","self-centered","selfish","sin","sinners"],"id":38923,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"... There are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nurse their own hurts. We don't associate them with pride, but they are still, at root, suffering from the same disease. They are still yoking happiness to accomplishment; it's just that they are giving themselves a D- rather than an A+. They tend to be just as solipsistic, and in their own way as self-centered, only in a self-pitying and isolating way rather than in an assertive and bragging way.","author":"David Brooks","tags":["low-self-esteem","pride","self-centered","self-pity","solipsistic","unworthy"],"id":48482,"author_id":"David+Brooks"},{"text":"There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.","author":"Peter S. Beagle","tags":["dead","dear","fragile","happy-endings","jonathan-rebeck","joys-of-the-dead","laura-durand","living","michael-morgan","nothing-ends","righteous","self-centered","unworthy","worthy"],"id":48701,"author_id":"Peter+S.+Beagle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}