Self Obsession Quotes

“She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“In praising myself, I only insult myself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“So long as you are self-obsessed, applause and mockery will equally impair your capacity. Wipe out every trace of self-obsession and you'll learn to work through both applause and mockery - and you'll rise as the true victor of time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Die of humanity, not of obesity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Praise (The Sonnet)

In praising myself,
I only insult myself.
In pleasing myself,
I bring misery upon myself.
Lots of things I bought,
Plenty places I travelled.
Nothing gave me the bliss I seek,
No matter how much I groveled.
Then I stopped wanting things,
I ceased craving for gratification.
I placed my heart at your feet,
Finally I found my absolution.
Long was I lost in the sleep of pride.
Erasing the self I found my light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Loneliness, in all its stresses, and all its pressures, possesses 2 oppressive dangers: the potential to make a man either depressed with himself or obsessed with himself; in his own mind, he will become like either a beast or a god.”
― Criss Jami

“There never was a sustainability problem, there is only a self-centricity problem.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“The Golden Sonnet

Where is el dorado?
It is not a city but a person.
Where is the kingdom of heaven?
It is not a place but compassion.
Where can we find joy?
Not the market but in acts of goodness.
Where can we find health?
Not in gadgets but in simpleness.
Where can we find strength?
Not in the bank but in character.
How can we make progress?
Not with luxury but by lifting the other.
Lesser the needs, better the life.
Gentler the soul, lighter the strife.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“It is with excellence that we'll revolutionize our world, not with success. Look at all those successful people - not a single concern for the downtrodden - not a single act of genuine compassion for those who have nothing - if this is success, then let me remain unsuccessful the rest of my life while struggling to elevate my society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“A life of struggle spent in service is far greater than a life of comfort spent in self-obsession.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Defy the gravity of self-centricity, and you'll levitate to infinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“You are a chunk of coal bursting to turn into diamond, and it's self-centricity that keeps you from turning into a diamond by filling your mind with the hooey of comfort and security.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Your biology doesn't want you to be inclusive - your biology doesn't want you to be global - your biology doesn't want you to be civilized - or to put it simply, your biology doesn't want you to be human - because to be human requires to be unselfish, which is deemed by your biology as a threat to your personal survival. Hence, it pulls all its savage strings in every walk of your life, so that you act as much selfish and primitive as possible, because as far as your biology is concerned, being selfish and primitive is what kept your ancestors alive in the jungle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“Gratification is damnation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“There is no other cause for the absence of peace, but selfishness, and nothing else can cause peace except selflessness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“There is God in everybody, you don't see it because the God in you is kept asleep by the selfish strife of a materialistic world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Selfishness is the enemy. And all peddlers of selfishness are my enemy. Anyone who wastes more food than they share with those who are starving is my enemy - anyone who throws away more clothes than they give away to those without is my enemy - anyone who wastes more time in frivolous acts of enjoyment than they spend in helping those in need is my enemy - for they are the cause of all disparities in the world. I don't hate them, for I renounced hate long ago, but as a human it’s my duty to bring them down to earth while lifting the fallen up to their rightful place under the sun.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“Evolution & World Building (The Sonnet)

One cell became two,
For being alone is no life.
Then those two became four,
To ease each other's strife.
3 billion years later there are,
Seven billion of us and trillions others.
Now how come we wanna turn back time,
How come we hoard all after selfish desires!
Joy of sharing outshines all other joy
Caring is the very foundation of life divine.
Divinity means neither magic not mysticism,
It’s just a common sense that makes hearts align.
The powers of world-building are all encoded in you.
Bring those codes to life and write the world anew.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Apathy, vanity, self-centricity - these are the curse of our society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Service over selfies, that is life for the unselfish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Selfish self is septic self.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“It's only the savages who boast about healthy competition. Competition is but fodder for division and self-obsession.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Cads kill me. Men who go through life making wisecracks, being overtly rude, taking advantage, being self-obsessed disasters. They're just funny to me. Because of this hobbyhorse, one of my favorite films is Breathless, by Jean-Luc Godard.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“Vainer you are, faster you fade.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

“Narcissism has a time and place, cold detachment has a time and place. Problem is, we've made a world out of narcissism and detachment, while hypocritically diagnosing them as clinical on one hand, and sugarcoating them as self-care or stoicism on the other. In reality, it's all nonsense. When people are upset at you, with no fault of your own, or when they come to take away your dream, that's when you gotta let detachment kick on. Likewise, when shallow nitwits commit harm in front of your eyes, that's when you gotta exercise your narcissism, and treat them like a parent would treat their child when they've done something wrong. Even the ugliest of animal faculty can be used for good, when wielded with conscience. It's about using the whole of your mind, rather than giving in to all the prehistoric intellectual dualities of narcissism and altruism, or attachment and detachment. When people are helpless, to them be a christ - but when they behave heartless instead, be the light to their lies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“No guns,
No greed,
No grandeur.
Period.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Anybody who says, they enjoy loneliness, is either lying or plain narcissistic retard.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Greed makes us narrow,
Greed shrinks our soul.
Beyond greed lies gallantry,
Beyond greed all is whole.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Least capable people are most selfish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Kitsch tells you how nice you are: it offers easy feelings on the cheap. Beauty tells you to stop thinking about yourself, and to wake up to the world of others. It says, look at this, listen to this, study this - for here is something more important than you. Kitsch is a means to cheap emotion; beauty is an end in itself. We reach beauty through setting our interests aside and letting the world dawn on us. There are many ways of doing this, but art is undeniably the most important, since it presents us with the image of human life - our own life and all that life means to us - and asks us to look on it directly, not for what we can take from it but for what we can give to it. Through beauty art cleans the world of our self-obsession”
― Roger Scruton, Confessions of a Heretic