The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.
Virginia WoolfTags: thinking worry egotism anxiety
What’s this ”
“A needle.”
“What should I do with it ” He’d walked right into it. Too easy.
“Please use it to pop your head. It’s obscuring my view of the room.
Tags: humor egotism kate-daniels saiman
You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!
Harry TrumanTags: humor politics friendship friends dogs sarcasm egotism faithfulness political-humor backstabbing
Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.
Fulton J. SheenTags: war selfishness egotism
However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions.
Maxim GorkyTags: egotism
Tags: ego egotism self-centeredness self-preservation egoism
She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on their hands till their hands grow into feet; then lay their faces on the ground till they grow into snouts; when at last they are a hideous sort of lizards, each of which believes himself the best, wisest, and loveliest being in the world, yea, the very centre of the universe. And so they run about for ever looking for their own shadows that they may worship them, and miserable because they cannot find them, being themselves too near the ground to have any shadows; and what becomes of them at last, there is but one who knows.
George MacDonaldTags: conceit misery egotism self-centeredness
We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?
Mitch AlbomTags: truth egotism realization looking-back mundane-life wrapped-up
Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.
Criss JamiTags: hate communication selfish arrogance pride business egotism insult superiority inferiority body-language offensive cocky silence-communication nonexistent
Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.
Jetta CarletonTags: inspirational confidence egotism conviction
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