Disarming The Narcissist Quotes & Sayings

To do something good, it has to scare you. — Angelina Jolie

My idea of "goodness" had to do with belonging in a small yet reciprocal way to something huge and beautiful beyond my understanding. — Carrie Saxifrage

If necessary, they will even kill to escape the pain of their own spiritual growth. As the integrity of their sick self is threatened by the spiritual health of those around them, they will seek by all manner of means to crush and demolish the spiritual health that may exist near them. I define evil, then, as the exercise of — M. Scott Peck

The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do. — Isaac Mizrahi

If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it. People often say that my first years in Nashville, when I wasn't getting anything cut, were tough. Hell, those were great years. — Kris Kristofferson

The slightest deviation from the line of clear conviction - the least turning to left or right in order to cocker a prejudice or please an audience or flatter a class, showed a want of delicacy - a preference of present popularity to permanent self-respect - which he could never have indulged in himself, and with difficulty tolerated in others. He had nothing but contempt for philosophical politicians with a turn for swimming with the stream, and philosophical divines with the same turn. — Matthew Arnold

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. — Henry David Thoreau