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

Craig D. Lounsbrough Alone Auditorium Chairs Ego Egocentric Empty Greed Greedy Lonely Me Narcissism Narcissistic Self Self Centered Self Centeredness Self Focused Selfish Selfishness

If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing itself in the very act of feeding itself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Destructive Ego Egocentric Feed Feeding Gorge Gorging Greed Greedy Kill Killing Murder Narcissism Narcissistic Self Self Centered Self Destruct Self Destruction Self Mutilation Suicidal Suicide

If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Alone Ego Ego Centric Fan Greed Greedy Lonely Narcissism Narcissistic Self Self Centered Self Love Selfish Stadium

The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Greed Greedy Hoard Hoarding Invest Investment Self Self Centered Self Serving Selfish Selfishness Short Shortest Stock Stockpile

To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Greed Narcissism Self Self Centered Selfish

Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein…

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Thomm Quackenbush Self Centered Self Harm Self Injury Suicide

If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Bankrupt Bankruptcy Egocentric Greed Greedy Impoverished Poverty Self Centered Selfish Selfishness

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

~ Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami Cruelty Evil Good Intentions Hurt Looking Back Self Centered Wound

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

~ Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones Morality Self Centered Support

Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough First Greed Human Human Nature Necessity Sacrifice Self Centered Self Sacrifice Selfish

Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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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

Chuck Palahniuk God Inspriational Self Centered Universe

To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Caring Choice Choices Choosing Consequences Give Giving Greed Life Perish Perishing Release Resources Sacrifice Sacrificial Sacrificing Self Centered

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

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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.

~ Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Cereal Community Consumerism Humility Options Preference Self Centered

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Helping Others Perspective Self Centered Selfless Service

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Arrogance Arrogant Egotism Egotistical God Idols Pride Prideful Room Salvation Self Absorbed Self Centered Selfish Surrender

... 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.

~ David Brooks

David Brooks Low Self Esteem Pride Self Centered Self Pity Solipsistic Unworthy

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Deceit Deceive Deception Ego Egocentric Fake False Fraudulence Fraudulent Gifts Give Giving Greed Greedy Lie Life Narcissism Narcissistic Pretend Pretending Self Centered Selfish Selfishness

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Disguise Ego Egocentric Fake Fraud Fraudulent Greed Greedy Justification Justify Narcissist Narcissistic Odor Odors Rationalize Self Centered Selfish Selfishness Smell Stench Stink Stinky

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Deceit Deceitful Deception Disguise Ego Egocentric Greed Greedy Love Loving Narcissistic Self Centered Selfish Selfishness

Empowered Women 101: A confident and faithful woman that loves herself and knows what she is capable of creating will attract the right man that will want to be part of that plan. God won't bring her a man that she has to mold into what she wants him to be. A relationship is about two people helping one another grow, not just one.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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