Lauren Holly Quotes

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.

I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

It's amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I'm a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.

Fatherhood has changed me - it has to change you. It makes you much more aware of the minutiae of life, it's not about your needs any more, its about everyone else's.

Motherhood made me a better person.

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.

You just become more mature as a human being, having a child. The stakes are a lot higher, things are different. It teaches you to be patient and it's changed me a lot.

Fatherhood has changed me, I've become more patient.

Having a kid is getting a certain kind of freedom in a way because you can't be self-obsessed anymore.

Before I had my babies, I would tend to be self-absorbed, and worry about little things, but now I am a changed person.

I think parenthood does change your priorities quite drastically in an incredibly good way - most of the time.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

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.