Charles Kingsley Quotes

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

We feel most small, we feel most challenged when we're only focusing on ourselves. Because even when you fulfill yourself, meaning you get what you think you want, you still find yourself in a position where it's never enough.

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

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

Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can't only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people's lives.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.