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.
A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.
I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?
Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.
In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.
My good friend once said, "You guys think you're the stars in your own movie."
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.
The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.
One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
I think if you make a show where you try to make a character look good, not only is it kind of weird, but it's sociopathic.
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.
