Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence, selfishness and egocentrism.