Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
Dietrich BonhoefferWho would you impress if the world was blind?
Shannon L. AlderTags: self-esteem beauty perspective self-worth vanity self-confidence persona outlook life-purpose life-missions outward-appearances
She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
Edith WhartonTags: indifference jealousy vanity popularity
[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world.
Alain de BottonTags: humor life art vanity understanding criticism novels films desire plays paintings poems gravity anxiety self-understanding
My intellect was my greatest vanity.
Dan SimmonsTags: vanity intellectuals intellect intellectualism
Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens".
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
Tags: heaven heavenly-rewards vanity ecclesiastes vane r-alan-woods
The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
Anthony de MelloTags: wisdom vanity saintliness
Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.
P.N. ElrodTags: life love insanity world vanity greed misery meanness
The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.
Ross DouthatTags: diet vanity exercise purity yoga puritanical
Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero, and one look at him should establish the vanity angle."
"Nash!" I really shouldn't have been surprised by the dig. But I was.
"What?" He raised one brow at me in challenge. "It's okay to call me jealous, but not to call him vain?"
"Awareness of one's obvious advantages doesn't imply vanity," Tod insisted calmly.
Nash turned on him. "Does it imply narcissism?"
Tod huffed. "This coming from the guy who owns more hair products than his girlfriend.
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