LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self.

MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

Mina Loy

Tags: love compassion empathy self self-respect sympathy ego others egotism



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Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

Joseph Heller

Tags: nihilism egotism



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If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Douglas Adams

Tags: egotism zaphod-beeblebrox



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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

Graham Greene

Tags: happiness evil ignorance egotism



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Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce

Tags: humor sarcasm taste egotism



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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Samuel Johnson

Tags: society economics consumerism selfishness greed materialism egotism luxury



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Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

Paul Brunton

Tags: inspirational suffering sin ego egotism



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People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

Mary MacLane

Tags: individuality egotism



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Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.

Bobbe Sommer

Tags: success happiness unique opinion modesty egotism regard self-destruction precondition sef



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Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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