the truth is that most people are simply too distracted by their thoughts to have the selflessness of consciousness pointed out directly.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

[...] people too busy leading their lives to worry about extending their life expectancy.

The fact is that everyone is much too busily preoccupied with himself to be able to form a serious opinion about another person. The indolent world is all too ready to treat any man with whatever degree of respect corresponds to his own self-confidence.

It’s not that people are mean or cruel, they’re just busy.

Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.

Most well-behaved women are too busy living their lives to think about recording what they do and too modest about their own achievements to think anybody else will care.

It's done by everyone minding their own business

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Like many isolated people, they were wrapped up in themselves and not too interested in the world outside.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

People of that sort seldom fall ill; they are too busy pretending to be ill.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.