A Quote by Taylor Swift
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.
Bhakti is the one essential thing.
To be sure, God exists in all beings.
Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God.
But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
The water of God's grace cannot collect
on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND.
THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.
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