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“Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt. So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous

“The most self-absorbed people display an ironic pension for the smallest minds and the largest mouths.”
― Aaron W. Matthews

“The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment.”
― C.S. Lewis

“And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a bit cheap, a bit foul, and that no one appreciates all the remarkable things about me—my fantasy, my erudition, my literary gift…I am happy that I can gaze at myself, for any man is absorbing—yes, really absorbing! ... I am happy—yes, happy!”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye

“When God interrupts your life, He is calling you to follow Him in a new way. By breaking into your settled pattern, He is moving you to a new place where you can make fresh discoveries of His grace. Embracing God’s call is never easy, but this is where the pursuit of a God-centered life begins, and where the shame of a self-centered life is exposed.”
― Colin S. Smith, Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

“Pride is nothing more than us highlighting us.”
― Kevin Thoman

“Self-centered people often get angry when someone tells them no.

Stan said yes out of fear that he would lose love and that other people would get angry at him. These false motives and others keep us from setting boundaries:”
― Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life

“When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

“We are molding Jesus into our image. He's beginning to look a lot like us because, after all, that is who we are most comfortable with. The danger now is when we gather in our church buildings to sing, and lift up our hands in worship, we may not actually be worshiping the Jesus of the Bible. Instead, we may be worshiping ourselves.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

“Seeing myself or my church or my denomination as "the blessing" — like so many mission trips to help "those less fortunate than ourselves" — can easily descend into a blend of  benevolence and paternalism. We can start to see the "poor" as supporting characters in a big story about how noble, selfless, and helpful we are.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

“I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“[Schulz] came to see that the better part of his shyness was really vanity, or self-centeredness. "Shyness is an illusion," he would say, late in life. "If you get out and do something and talk to people, you don't have to be shy. Shyness is the overtly self-conscious thinking that you are the only person in the world; that how you look and what you do is of any importance.”
― David Michaelis, Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography

“When I was a student, there wasn't a single thing we did that was unrelated to others. It was all for the Emperor, or parents, or the country, or society—everything was other-centered, which means that all educated men were hypocrites. When society changed, this hypocrisy ceased to work, and as a result, self-centeredness was gradually imported into thought and action, and egoism became enormously over-developed. Instead of the old hypocrites, now all we've got are out-and-out rogues. Do you see what I mean by that?”
― Natsume Sōseki, �����Բ��󾱰�ō

“The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I' never make up stories where I come out looking bad.”
― The Golden Girls Episode Guide Teamn

“The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.”
― George will, One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

“All we need to release our inner God is a pulpit and an audience, both of which the Internet supplies in great abundance. Too bad that the corollaly to being in God mode in cyberspace is an explosion of narcissism and self-centeredness.”
― Elias Aboujaoude Md

“white middle-upper class guys in highly educated families have a unique burden placed on us to be the hero of every story that we tell. I don’t think it’s merely that we’re self-centered and arrogant, but that we feel like we’re supposed to be in charge, and if we’re not the hero of the story, we’ve somehow failed in our life duty.group”
― Morgan Guyton

“In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and this time it wasn’t 12 percent who considered themselves very important, it was 80 percent.”
― David Brooks

“In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.”
― John Kasich, Every Other Monday: Twenty Years of Life, Lunch, Faith, and Friendship

“If I see God as nothing more than a caricature of history or imagination I cannot do anything less than make myself my own ‘god��. And once I realize that in doing so my rendition of being a ‘god�� is embarrassingly inferior to the very caricature I am mimicking, I quickly come to realize that maybe the only thing that can be ‘god�� is a God. And if that is the case, I suddenly find myself hounded by the stunning reality that God is not a caricature.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you are anything like me, you do a lot of listening to yourself everyday.”
― C.J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing

“I refer to the cross of Christ. The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt - self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, comfort over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God

“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I think myself so terribly ‘clever�� that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I’m ‘cleverly�� creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that the only thing that is relevant is His relevance.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.”
― Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

“One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.”
― Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

“One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.”
― A.J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All

“Shame-filled pride is never satisfied and always seeks its next fix. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.”
― Eddie Capparucci, LPC