Miles Franklin Quotes

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

me-firstism

Americans are so egocentric.

Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor.

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.

A selfish person says, hey, me and my four at home and no more and whatever happens to you is OK. But it can't be that way. It cannot be that way.

An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything happens to him contrary to his expectation, he at once concludes that the whole universe is evil. If, however, he would take into consideration the whole universe, form an idea of it, and comprehend what a small portion he is of the Universe, he will find the truth. There are many ... passages in the books of the prophets expressing the same idea.

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

It's so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.

People are selfish, man. They want what they want; they don't care what you want.

And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.

At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.