#centered

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#self-centered #self-love

She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to listen to Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. It almost feels like of the three things involved: Mary Elizabeth, me, and the great things, only the first one matters to Mary Elizabeth. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#gifts #histrionic-people #kindness #love #obnoxious-people

I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family. ↗

— Celine Dion

#centered #family #feeling #give #great

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#centered #children #control #cruise #getting

Philippians 1:21 is very special to me because it helps to keep my life centered. ↗

— Allyson Felix

#centered #helps #keep #life #me

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#i think #leads #nature #often #self-centered

The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#attractive #bit #centered #city #commuting

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking. ↗

— Douglass North

#around #banking #centered #dissertation #early

Cultivate the understanding that the self is not really an independently existing entity, and begin to view self instead in terms of it's dependent relation to others. Although it is difficult to say that merely reflecting on this will produce a profound spiritual realization, it will at least have some effect. Your mind will be more open. Something will begin to change within you. Therefore, even in the immediate term there is definitely a positive and beneficial effect in reversing these two attitudes and moving from self-centeredness to other-centeredness, from belief in self existence to belief in dependent origination. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#other-centeredness #self #self-centeredness #spiritual-realization #attitude