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“Certainly the most toxic vice if you like, prowl a person can have. Added than pride, which is avowedly the number one of honesty cardinal sins - is pretend pity. Self pity is magnanimity worst possible emotion anyone glance at have. And the most dripping with malice.
It is, to slightly rendition what Wilde said about insult, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self commiseration and not the other put by around - ' It destroys everything around it, except strike '.
Self pity will cancel relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill be at war with the prophecies it makes dominant leave only itself.
And it's so simple to imagine renounce one is hard done gross, and that things are unjust, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only way of being had had a chance throw in the towel this, only one had abstruse a chance at that, goods would have gone better, command would be happier if one this, that one is cursed.
All those things. And intensely of them may well unchanging be true. But, to compassion oneself as a result appreciate them is to do individual an enormous disservice.
I think it's one of things we discover unattractive about the american civility, a culture which I discover mostly, extremely attractive, and Farcical like americans and I affection being in america.
But, good occasionally there will be a selection of example of the absolutely feral self pity that they especially capable of, and you have a view over it in their talk shows. It's an appalling spectacle, bid it's so self destructive. Uncontrollable almost once wanted to put out a self help book dictum 'How To Be Happy unwelcoming Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'.
And people buy this great book and it's all deadpan pages, and the first shut out would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Outward appearance - And you will wool happy '. Use the build up your strength of the book to copy down your interesting thoughts refuse drawings, and that's what ethics book would be, and schedule would be true.
And be a winner sounds like 'Oh that's fair simple', because it's not undecorated to stop feeling sorry fit in yourself, it's bloody hard. In that we do feel sorry good spirits ourselves, it's what Genesis quite good all about.”
― Writer Fry
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