"Accept your least, use your best." ~nr lenz
"Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever." ~James Agate
Boy, if that isn't the "epitomy" of "pity"!
"Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink." ~Elizabeth Elliot
"Wallow if you choose, and sink alone!" ~nr lenz
"The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self." ~Willa Gibbs
"Self-pity will bite like that of a harsh, wicked wind." ~nr lenz
"Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being." ~Michel de Montaigne
"Soothe your inner savage beast; accept and learn to like the 'man in the mirror'." ~nr lenz
"The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered." ~Richard Steele
"Compliments often raise the cloak of self-pity from the face of a fool." ~nr lenz