Agnes Martin Quotes

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.

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

All pity is self-pity.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

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

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

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.

Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.

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

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

I think players maybe now want to look more pretty than anything else. What I feel disappointed about when I watch games is too many players think of themselves. Still good players, maybe better than we were, but looking too much at themselves.

Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means [1 Corinthians 10:31].

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

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.

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.