Establishing healthy habits - like eating a healthy diet, getting plenty of sleep, and participating in regular exercise - can also go a long way to improving how you feel. Similarly, getting rid of destructive mental habits, like engaging in self-pity or ruminating on the past, can also do wonders for your emotional well-being.
Amy Morin
Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre Maurois
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
Anne Roiphe
I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.
Ben Dolnick
I don't have time for self-pity. I don't see the point in dwelling on the past.
Billy Monger
You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to play them.'
Bret Michaels
Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.
Bret Stephens
Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
Carrie Fisher
I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.
Chrissie Hynde
There can be dramas in your life and you can get over them and become someone. You don't have to wallow in self-pity; you can actually use the experiences in your life to push yourself further and help others.
Craig Revel Horwood
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
Dave Matthews
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
Eckhart Tolle
Mom was never self-pitying. She was ferociously focused on making sure that everyone understood that she knew how fortunate she has been.
Emma Walton Hamilton
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
Ezra Taft Benson
Age is definitely an issue for women in TV. There comes a point - especially if you're a woman - when your career just falls off a cliff. I'm not being self-pitying. That's just the way it is.
Fiona Bruce
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
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.'
Howard Schultz
I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.
James A. Michener
I felt like I couldn't wallow in self-pity forever. I can't beat myself up forever.
James Arthur
If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.
If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.
Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.
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.
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.
As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.
I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.
I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it's necessary. Over my life's journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would have made him a dangerously authoritarian president.
If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
