In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Self importance is man's greatest enemy.
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.
Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.
The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.
All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.
The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man. . .
affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.
Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.
Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.
Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.
If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.
It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.
I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?
It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem for us. We feel justified in being annoyed with everything. We feel justified in denigrating ourselves or in feeling that we are more clever than other people. Self-importance hurts us, limiting us to the narrow world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up never satisfied.
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