~ Self-Pity~ “Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity” ― Aleksandar Hemon “Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.” ― John Gardner “All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. ― Tom Robbins “Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatreds a subset of self pity and not the other way around - It destroys everything around it, except itself . Self pity will destroy relationships, itll destroy anything thats good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And its so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky. All those things. And some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice. ― Stephen Fry “When we pity ourselves all we see is ourselves. When we have problems, all we see are our problems and thats all what we love of talking about. We dont see the good things in our lives.” ― Ann Marie Aguilar “He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didnt work. It wasnt just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didnt work.” ― Gary Paulsen “Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.” ― Millicent Fenwick “You will surely smile with me when I say, Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.” ― James Fox
Posted on: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:13:47 +0000
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