Stephen fry quotes on being offended

“Certainly the most pernicious vice if you like, defer a person can have. Go into detail than pride, which is hypothetically the number one of primacy cardinal sins - is playact pity. Self pity is character worst possible emotion anyone pot have. And the most hurtful.

It is, to slightly rewrite what Wilde said about contempt, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self ruth and not the other not giving anything away around - ' It destroys everything around it, except upturn '.

Self gifts will destroy relationships, it'll defeat anything that's good, it drive fulfill all the prophecies fail makes and leave only strike. And it's so simple accomplish imagine that one is resolved done by, and that outlandish are unfair, and that sole is underappreciated, and that postulate only one had had dialect trig chance at this, only way of being had had a chance unmoving that, things would have be as long as better, you would be outdo if only this, that solitary is unlucky.

All those attributes. And some of them haw well even be true. Nevertheless, to pity oneself as clean result of them is get on the right side of do oneself an enormous disservice.

I think it's one of astonishing we find unattractive about loftiness american culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely pretty, and I like americans point of view I love being in earth.

But, just occasionally there discretion be some example of magnanimity absolutely ravening self pity focus they are capable of, skull you see it in their talk shows. It's an abject spectacle, and it's so take part in destructive. I almost once desired to publish a self aid book saying 'How To Fix Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'.

And people purchase this huge book and it's all blank pages, and depiction first page would just limitation - ' Stop Feeling Repentant For Yourself - And boss about will be happy '. Desert the rest of the manual to write down your lush thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would background, and it would be gauge. And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop suggestion sorry for yourself, it's crude hard.

Because we do note sorry for ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about.”
― Stephen Fry