Grandiosity is when we are wrapped up in winning life's false contest. This happens only when we live to impress the abusive parents in our heads, not when we are soberly and philosophically working to advance civilization.
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ..each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add...
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Tennessee Williams
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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Jane Austen
How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.
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Karen Quan
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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JeanJacques Rousseau
More Quotes By Steven Franssen
Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.
Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.
The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.
The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.
By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.
