“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”
In pp. 104-105.
Sources, The Yoga Darsana Of Patanjali With The Sankhya Pravacana Commentary Of Vyasa
Quote from Berthe's Morisot's letter, 1887 - after the death of her husband Eugène Manet
1881 - 1895
“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.”
As quoted in Do It : Let's Get Off Our Buts (1992) by Peter John Roger McWilliams
Paraphrased variant: Everything that I did in life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
As quoted in Compact Fruit Tree (2002) Vol. 35-38, by International Dwarf Fruit Tree Association, p. 32
Undated
“I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”
"Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think" (2011)
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Context: An experiment about your next vacation will allow you to observe your attitude to your experiencing self: At the end of the vacation, all pictures and videos will be destroyed. Furthermore, you will swallow a potion that will wipe out all your memories of the vacation. How would this affect your vacation plans? How much would you be willing to pay for it, relative to a normally memorable vacation? My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.Imagine a painful operation during which you will scream in pain and beg the surgeon to stop. However, you are promised an amnesia-inducing drug that will wipe out any memory of the episode. Here again, my observation is that most people are remarkably indifferent to the pains of their experiencing self. Some say they don’t care at all. Others share my feeling, which is that I feel pity for my suffering self but not more than I would feel for a stranger in pain.I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.
