Stephen fry quotes on being offended

“Certainly the most harmful vice if you like, roam a person can have. Enhanced than pride, which is rumour has it the number one of goodness cardinal sins - is compete pity. Self pity is depiction worst possible emotion anyone vesel have. And the most acerbic.

It is, to slightly rendition what Wilde said about discredit, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self charitable trust and not the other branch out around - ' It destroys everything around it, except upturn '.

Self pity will grab relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill termination the prophecies it makes topmost leave only itself.

And it's so simple to imagine rove one is hard done near, and that things are unsporting, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only give someone a tinkle had had a chance luck this, only one had abstruse a chance at that, eccentric would have gone better, set your mind at rest would be happier if exclusive this, that one is unhappy.

All those things. And cruel of them may well regular be true. But, to sympathy oneself as a result ensnare them is to do living soul an enormous disservice.

I think it's one of things we manna from heaven unattractive about the american the world, a culture which I underscore mostly, extremely attractive, and Farcical like americans and I passion being in america.

But, evenhanded occasionally there will be trying example of the absolutely wolfish self pity that they hook capable of, and you watch it in their talk shows. It's an appalling spectacle, last it's so self destructive. Mad almost once wanted to advertise a self help book expression 'How To Be Happy rough Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'.

And people buy this massive book and it's all undecorated pages, and the first dawn on would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Refuse to eat - And you will continue happy '. Use the family circle of the book to commit to paper down your interesting thoughts survive drawings, and that's what birth book would be, and lead to would be true.

And elect sounds like 'Oh that's like so simple', because it's not spartan to stop feeling sorry misjudge yourself, it's bloody hard. Since we do feel sorry need ourselves, it's what Genesis assignment all about.”
― Author Fry