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  • In times of unrest and in an unstable economy, it is very easy to let your attitude slip and begin feeling sorry for yourself. This is precisely when you want to practice healthy attitudinal rules to stay alert, alive and enthusiastic. Don't ever lose the zest for life and life won't lose its zest for you. Say something positive to every person you meet today.

    FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 04, 2011
  • There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

  • Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

    Honesty   Sorry   Self  
  • You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

    Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
  • I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.

    Sorry   Past   People  
    Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.

    Sorry   Dark   Long  
    Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
  • Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

  • Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

    Sorry   Mma   Worry  
  • Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.

    Girl   Sorry   Cancer  
    Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.135, Simon and Schuster
  • My pulse whooshed in my ears so fast I could barely hear myself speak. “I only have—” “Two days.” He squeezed my hand. “So what? You can spend them feeling sorry for yourself, or you can let me help make them the best two days of your life, and my afterlife. So what’s it gonna be?” I stared into his eyes, like I’d never seen him before. And I hadn’t—not like this. But he’d obviously seen me, better than anyone else ever had. “Well?” Tod watched me, his hand still warm in mine. In answer, I leaned forward and kissed him again.

    Sorry   Eye   Hands  
    Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.244, Harlequin
  • Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

    Country   Song   Sorry  
  • Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

  • We find worth in jobs, money, & performance so we can hide how worthless we feel inside. Acknowledge the pain to be healed.

    Jobs   Pain   Feels  
  • Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions.

  • I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.'

    Sorry   Book   Self  
  • Responding to sexism you have to not just remain silent but try to figure out a proper response - again, though, not going to the place of anger and feeling sorry for yourself, because that kind of plays into the hands of the sexists.... It does take practice though.

    Sorry   Feelings   Trying  
  • Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You think maybe it's time for the pity party to be over? You should stop feeling sorry for yourself and try to think positive,' it makes you wish you could saw their head off.

    Sorry   Party   Thinking  
    Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.54, Macmillan
  • I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.

  • When exhausted and feeling sorry for yourself, at least change your socks.

  • I like to make sure I don't sing songs that are like self hating and feeling sorry for yourself 'cause that's not the kind of legacy I want to leave really. I want people to feel like strength, especially young women.

    Song   Sorry   Hate  
    Source: www.cyinterview.com
  • With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

    FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 29, 2015
  • Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

  • Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.

  • Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time.

    Sorry   Hard Work   Soul  
  • I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

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