(6 quotes found)
“The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The egocentric person is always enthusiastic about getting behind - or involved - in a cause, an issue or a movement as long as the focus is on him and what he himself as an individual is doing to help. However, the minute the focus shifts back to the cause, issue or movement itself, then the egoist is no longer interested in helping or being involved, hence confirming a hypocrisy that his help was never about the cause itself.”
Mike E. Knezevich, Jr.
“Don't do the Impossible for someone who wouldn't do the possible for you.”
Assya Moussaid
“Sad it is when you pour out all your feelings; and discover that the pot has a hole.”
“Good people are not unlucky, they're smart, but their good faith makes it easy for predator egoists to manipulate them and use them to thrive.”
“Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing /to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.”
