Quotes for All
My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else. Evgeny Morozov
Our consumer economy peddles the notions romantic consumerism of finding the one, of being the one. It’s the narcissistic enhancement of, I’m the one you stopped your nomadic life for. It’s one thing when you have sex for the first time when you marry, but it’s another thing altogether when you stop having sex with … Read more
If you’re not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can’t connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good. Esther Hicks
The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a loving mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the … Read more
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one’s narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or … Read more
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Erich Fromm
It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring. Erica Jong
I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it… It is unrequited self-love. Emily Levine
Which always raises the interesting question of whether redheads pursue other redheads in a narcissistic way, or simply, because they have no other choice, as nonredheads aren’t interested. Emily Giffin
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious. Friedrich Nietzsche