Miguel Quotes

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

I don't dream about anyone - except myself

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

All pity is self-pity.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

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.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

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

Like most people, what I find irritating in others are my own faults.

Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.

When you're younger, you do take things personally.

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.

In general, I can't stand people who always turn a conversation into something about them. I can't stand it when people are too into themselves.