When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.
I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.
How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.
I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'
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