Quotes About Self-centered

As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.

Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.

She was of an age that took other people's lives to be pretty fictions, useful merely for adorning the invisible membrane that contained her own singular and glorious existence.

discouraging as he'd been, hadn't actually hit on my real worry about my project: Was it supremely self-centered to spend so much effort on my own happiness?

I am a caring person, I will be there for everyone but I am a very self-centered person. My approach towards people is very self-centred.

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

When we first hear that everything is a tentative existence, most of us are disappointed; but this disappointment comes from a wrong view of man and nature. It is because our way of observing things is deeply rooted in our self-centered ideas that we are disappointed when we find everything has only a tentative existence. But when we actually realize this truth, we will have no suffering.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

The world was a self-centered place and he hated it for it. This attitude was the main reason the cats and dogs here at the shelter amazed him so much. They could be subjected to the worst of circumstances and yet give their love to the first person who showed it back. If people could learn that simple aspect, there might be a chance of saving this world.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.

Dating in college and dating in Hollywood are actually really similar in that the relationships don't last long. Other than that, lots of people in Hollywood tend to be narcissistic, and it's hard to have a relationship with someone like that.

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!

Our flesh takes over when we decide to be self-centered instead of self-sacrificing. Then there is Satan. God

Trump will always put himself before anyone and any value and that a lifetime of scams, frauds, scandals, and lies has proven that whoever associates with Trump is discredited.

Vain people can't bear to be crossed. They are the center of their world, and if circumstances don't allow the world to meet their needs, then the circumstances need to be changed. Their actions appear proportionate to them because any situation where their needs aren't being met is an affront.

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.

That's what makes me insufferable to be around, is that most of my life I have assumed that everyone wants to see me perform and do things all the time.

The first phase—the Me Phase of practice—involves clarifying all the ways we're run by the self-centered mind. It includes uncovering our most basic beliefs, observing our typical emotional reactions and patterns of behavior, and perhaps most important of all, becoming very familiar with our fears.

An egoist is someone who doesn't think about me...