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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


#egotism #inspirational #sin #suffering #inspirational

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.


John Steinbeck


#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

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 Carleton


#conviction #egotism #inspirational #inspirational

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.


Sydney J. Harris


#assume #boasting #egotism #form #intolerance

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 Albom


#looking-back #mundane-life #realization #truth #wrapped-up

One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us.


Okakura Kakuzo


#egotism #vanity #money

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


#individuality #mac

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


Graham Greene


#evil #happiness #ignorance #selfishness

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.


Alexander Smith


#character #distinctive #egotism #egotist #full

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.


Wallace Stevens


#acute #deal #egotism #everything #explanation






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