Narcissistic Damage Quotes & Sayings

As for wrinkles
Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare. — C.S. Lewis

As to your despair -- that comes because you
wish to live for your own happiness.'
'What else should one live for?' asked Martin.
'For God, Martin,' said the old man. 'He gives
you life, and you must live for Him. When you have learnt to live for Him, you will grieve no more, and all will seem easy to you. — Leo Tolstoy

For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I'm going is an act. — Keith Stanfield

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes. — Ted Rall

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them. — Steven Seagal

Vin Diesel had to hire a babysitter. — Vin Diesel

She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death. — Tanith Lee

regret with dignity and grace. — Dalai Lama XIV

[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture. — Pope Pius XII

I feel like the knight in an ancient romance as, wrapped in his shining armor, after performing a thousand astonishing feats throughout the world, he meets a ragged, starving herdsman, who, never leaving his pasture, subdues and controls horrible beasts with his bare hands, and with prodigious courage. — Elena Ferrante

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. — George Bernard Shaw

And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry. — Socrates

In other words, without being tossed about by personal feelings and ideas, just returning to the life of my true self, without envying or being arrogant toward those around me, neither being self-deprecating nor competing with others, yet on the other hand not falling into the trap of laziness, negligence, or carelessness - just manifesting that life of my self with all the vigor I have - here is where the glory of life comes forth and where the light of buddha shines.53 Religious light shines where we manifest our own life. — Kosho Uchiyama