Sentence examples for have self-pity. from inspiring English sources

If only I have more friends, etc. Discontentment not only lures us to have self-pity but also it prevents us to be contented and be happy with our life.

"I reflect on him and try not to give myself too much room to have self pity," he said.

Much better to have my own self-pity pricked with an awareness that others feel as worn out as I do, and to be confronted with part of the truth of my life.

Having wallowed in my own self-pity for a period of time, wondering how on earth I didn't see the signs, I was faced with the prospect of living a life of my own volition.

"My friend has no self-pity and has a positive view.

It said, 'True success is waking up every day realizing what a great life you have.' And sometimes I've allowed self-pity over losing to impact how I see the entire day, week, month, year.

John Martyn Gracee and Danger (Island, 1980) Men have a self-pity gland, and if ever a suite of music worked that gland to the point of inflammation then Martyn's mournful split-up album was it.

In addition to the line it walks between humor and heartbreak, the movie also manages to two-hand intimacy and distance; though the characters can have some self-pity, you never feel like you're wallowing in it with them.

He has suffered self-pity and anger ("Some poems are like lions that roar out of you").

Tessa has no self-pity and "...doesn't like euphemisms".

Sam understands the mountain she is climbing, yet she has no self-pity and zero anger, just gratitude and spunk.