![]() ![]() Because we do feel sorry for ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about. And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop feeling sorry for yourself, it's bloody hard. The Best Oscar Wilde Quotes In honor of his 163rd birthday, we take a look back at 20 of Irish literary genuis' most memorable quotes. ![]() Use the rest of the book to write down your interesting thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would be, and it would be true. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself - And you will be happy '. I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying 'How To Be Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'. It's an appalling spectacle, and it's so self destructive. But, just occasionally there will be some example of the absolutely ravening self pity that they are capable of, and you see it in their talk shows. I think it's one of things we find unattractive about the american culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely attractive, and I like americans and I love being in america. ![]() But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice. And it's so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky. Self pity will destroy relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. Oscar had two siblings, an older brother. His parents were Sir William Wilde, a successful aural surgeon and writer and Jane Francesco Elgee, who translated and wrote poetry and called herself the voice in poetry of all the people in Ireland. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '. Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde was born on 16th October 1854 at 21 Westland Row in Dublin. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity.
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