Other Centeredness Quotes

#1. The Jesus of the Bible lives by a simple philosophy: If love guides our hearts, rules become redundant. Love, embraced as a guiding orientation of other-centeredness, will always lead us to do the right thing.

Bruxy Cavey

#2. It is not my wish to stay home so much that I become isolated, but to use the comforting influence of my home to restore and gather myself after each step I take in my expanding ability to participate in the world.

Maureen Brady

#3. 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

#4. When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

Seth Adam Smith

#5. One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness ... which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.

William Everson

#6. Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#7. 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

#8. The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

Tullian Tchividjian

#9. In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.

Jane Hirshfield

#10. How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

George Eliot

#11. Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.

Charles Dickens

#12. The faceless, sexless, raceless proletariat. The faceless, raceless, classless category of "all women". Both creations of white Western self-centeredness. -Notes Toward a Politics of Location.

Adrienne Rich

#13. Man-centeredness is the universal religion of fallen man, and we are all dull fools to deny this.

Michael John Beasley

#14. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

Criss Jami

#15. Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

David Bohm

#16. I think we've become a TV culture where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.

Laura Benanti

#17. This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with.

Alice Munro

#18. One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

John C. Maxwell

#19. The human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Jose Saramago

#20. He has infinite happiness not through self-centeredness, but through self-giving, other-centered love. And the only way we, who have been created in his image, can have this same joy, is if we center our entire lives around him instead of ourselves. Why

Timothy Keller

#21. long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God [to] make him happy."[21] In other words, sin is the result of self-centeredness and pride.

Kevin Livermore

#22. Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.

John Bytheway

#23. The Spirit's work of making the gospel real to the heart weakens the self-centeredness in the soul.

Timothy Keller

#24. I've tried many other styles of yoga, but nothing has ever given me the same centeredness, energy, and internal balance that I feel when practicing Ashtanga Yoga.

David F. Swensen

#25. The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.

Richard Rohr

#26. It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.

Timothy Keller

#27. Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.

Bryant McGill

#28. To be wrecked begins with an experience that pulls you out of your comfort zone and self-centeredness, whether you want it or not.

Jeff Goins

#29. When a self-evident truth is presented, don't surprised when self-centeredness fights back...

Joe Matlock

#30. She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. Don't you agree?'
'I don't think that's possible,' said Mr Satterthwaite, slowly. 'I mean everyone's interest must go somewhere.

Agatha Christie

#31. He followed an ironclad rule. He NEVER WATCHED HIMSELF.

Douglas Brinkley

#32. The best way to preach men to Christ is to preach Christ to men.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#33. There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Miguel Ruiz

#34. If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centeredness, selfishness, jealousy, envy, intolerance, impatience, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, arrogance, and dishonesty, then there is a state of serenity and connectedness within.

Russell Brand

#35. Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.

John C. Maxwell

#36. A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King.

Andrew Murray

#37. We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

Mike Huckabee

#38. It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

Francis Bacon

#39. The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given its ultimate fulfillment as an expression of the wisdom of Christ.

Graeme Goldsworthy

#40. The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.

E.F. Schumacher

#41. There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint.

Janet Morris

#42. True repentance relinquishes self-centeredness and selfish motives. True repentance leads us to want to be Spirit-led and to live solely for the glory of God, no matter the consequences.

Susan Brackley

#43. It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

Ian McEwan

#44. 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