“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”
Patty Duke (1946–2016) American actress
“Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge.”
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The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Context: Death makes us strangers to ourselves... Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge. More than likely you would simply end up dead as well.
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W. H. Auden book The Dyer's Hand
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The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
“Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Sometimes quoted with the spelling "forgo", but Bierce used "forego" in his 1911 Collected Works
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Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Sandman Slim
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Article http://books.google.com/books?id=lHnjAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Remember+that+there+is+always+a+limit+to+self-indulgence+but+none+to+self-restraint+and+let+us+daily+progress+in+that+direction%22 in Young India (2 February 1928, Volume 10, Page 35) <br class="br">Posthumous publications (1950s and later)
“The antidote for self-pity and negative thinking is gratitude.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Future Proofing You (2021)