Lauren Myracle Quotes

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.

We have all had the experience at some point in our lives of sitting across from someone whose favorite subject is themselves. This is true of nearly everyone to some respect - but for some people, it is a particularly acute problem.

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

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

By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.

Beware of getting too comfortable! When we are comfortable, it’s easy to forget other people.

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.

I think we take our friends for granted a lot in high school. We're so busy worrying about our own problems that we ignore the fact that we have these people who are supporting us and taking care of us like all the time.

Community and families are what we're neglecting. This is what's holding us back as people, and instead, we want to look at everything else.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.

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.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

See, Cameron. The only things I care about in this life are me, you, Mum, Dad, Steve and Sarah. And maybe Miffy. The rest of the world means nothing to me. The rest of the world can rot.' Am I like that too?' You? No way.' There's a slight gap in his words. 'And that's your problem. You care about everything.' He's right. I do.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

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.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.