We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.
Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.
Stichwörter: loss vanity drinking failure alcohol irony cat bar new-beginnings bars audrey-hepburn snobs breakfast-at-tiffany-s the-recession new-yorkers
Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground.
Michael Bassey JohnsonStichwörter: vanity infantilism merry-hearts simple-world-for-fools
All success in life comes to naught if it is laced with vanity.
Andy PaulaStichwörter: success vanity naught
True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.
Shannon L. AlderStichwörter: truth honesty friendship relationships vanity being-real depth flaws soulmates true-friends shallowness
Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: truth error vanity
It is neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo with which we have a problem, but rather judgment according to God's Word. We sharply dress ourselves, go out into the world, shape ourselves, our personalities according to the world's standards and preferences, allow ourselves to be made dull by the world and its desires in order to appear successful and happy and attractive in the eyes of the world: we love the world's judgment but we hate God's judgment. Absurdly enough, the one which really matters, the one out of the purest of loves rather than that of a mere contract in hopes of mutual gain, is the one from which we so adamantly try to cut off, shut off, and distance ourselves.
Criss JamiStichwörter: love purpose world god judgment status-quo vanity bible meaning appearance
The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?
Jennifer Megan VarnadoreStichwörter: world vanity effort
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