Quotes About Centeredness

#1. 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

#2. I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

Shah Rukh Khan

#3. Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all - self-centeredness in its purest form.

Rick Yancey

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

John C. Maxwell

#5. The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

Kevin Kline

#6. 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

#7. The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

Stephen Spender

#8. The work of the Spirit makes Christ's saving work real to our hearts, giving us supernatural help against the main enemy of marriage: sinful self-centeredness. We need the fullness of the Spirit if we are to serve one another as we should.

Timothy Keller

#9. This is the true selfishness: self-centeredness.

Henry Cloud

#10. The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

Max Lucado

#11. 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

#12. Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.

Billy Graham

#13. The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#14. 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

#15. Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

Richard Paul Evans

#16. It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.

Tito Colliander

#17. 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

#18. You might have Bible verses on the wall in every room of the house and yet the unspoken rituals reinforce self-centeredness rather than sacrifice. Thus

James K.A. Smith

#19. Living God's way means putting away your self-centeredness and committing yourself to follow God's Word in spite of any feelings to the contrary.

John C. Broger

#20. Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

Marianne Williamson

#21. Greed is rightly considered a "deadly sin" because it erodes the moral values that encourage us to care for the common good. Greed violates the spirit of connectedness and community that is natural to human survival [...] replacing this awareness with harmful self-centeredness.

Bell Hooks

#22. I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party ... I'm a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness.

Donna Karan

#23. Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

Neal A. Maxwell

#24. Paul's goal is the transformation of the community that will turn from self-centeredness to a corporate existence shaped primarily by the love exhibited by the self-denial of Jesus.

James W. Thompson

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

Timothy Keller

#26. In the busyness and self-centeredness of our lives, we sadly forget how much our lives have been blessed by and radically redirected by mercy.

Paul David Tripp

#27. Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God. Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine. The

Huston Smith

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

Timothy Keller

#29. 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

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

Joe Matlock

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Mike Huckabee

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

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

William Everson

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

Michael John Beasley

#41. The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

Henry Blackaby

#42. Our greatest challenge today ... is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.

Kirk J. Schneider

#43. Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.

James Hillman

#44. 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

#45. 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

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

David Bohm

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. Some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.

Lionel Shriver

#51. The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

George F. Will

#52. 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

#53. We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.

Doug Dillon

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. Madelyn knew her aunt, drunk or sober, simply did not have the continuity of thought to see beyond her opinions to the implied insult.

Olivia Parker

#57. Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Alan W. Watts

#58. I ought not to have stirred, I was swept into the dance, caught up in the whirling movement of things. Being in Time means running after the present. You run after things, you run with things, you flow away.

Eugene Ionesco

#59. To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

#60. Root yourself in this earth
and it will root itself in you.

Sheniz Janmohamed

#61. A wise man need only the guidance of his own heart.

Tyler J. Hebert

#62. To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

Tullian Tchividjian

#63. 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

#64. The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.

Abbe Smith

#65. How hungrily we read about ourselves!

Gore Vidal

#66. 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

#67. There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.

J.I. Packer

#68. A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.

Ron Suskind

#69. One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.

A. J. Jacobs

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

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

Douglas Brinkley

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Miguel Ruiz

#76. 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

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

Francis Bacon

#78. 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

#79. Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do.

Bryant McGill

#80. 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

#81. Pride is nothing more than us highlighting us.

Kevin Thoman

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

Seth Adam Smith

#83. 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

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

Tullian Tchividjian

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

George Eliot

#86. 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

#87. 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

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

Criss Jami

#89. In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.

John Kasich

#90. If you are anything like me, you do a lot of listening to yourself everyday.

C.J. Mahaney