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People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.
Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.
Empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.
Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
Some people are wish-blocked, knowing neither what they feel nor what they want. Without opinions, without impulses, without inclinations, they become parasites on the desires of others.
You keep a secret inside of you and it feels like a wall that separates you from others.
Egotism fears its own self.
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
Your capacity for self-justification and rationalization." "If it were an Olympic sport, I'd medal.
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
A strong egoism is a protection.
I forgot at the time that this inability to penetrate a room is a particular form of hesitation to be associated with persons in whom an extreme egoism is dominant: the acceptance of someone else's place or dwelling possibly implying some distasteful abnegation of the newcomer's rights or position.
The privacy of sorrow.
DESIRE for money, and actually
Humility fears not humiliation.
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.
Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.
What is privacy if not for invading?
the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It
Arrogance covers up insecurities.
When we doubt our minds, we tend to discount its products. If we fear intellectual self-assertiveness, perhaps associating it with loss of love, we mute our intelligence. We dread being visible; so we make ourselves invisible, then suffer because no one sees us.
The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.
humble self- confidence.
Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.
Our belief in a limited and impoverished identity is such a strong habit that without it we are afraid we wouldn't know how to be.
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.
Taking an inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. This handicap can be surmounted - and timidity translated into courage - through the aid of the principle of autosuggestion.
this preoccupation with order, control,
The complacency engendered by the tranquil possession of a God-given truth.
We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and
It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.
Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
The vague torment of ... ambition.
The right to reticence seems earned only by having nothing to hide.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
From childish fear springs the desire to externalise the ego.
knowing your power
is what creates
humility.
not know your power
is what creates
insecurity.
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
Knowing beauty, influence, fame, and privilege to be borrowed rather than bestowed, they are not easily impressed. They are not quick to envy or take offense.
deep humility. There is nothing the arrogant hate more.
Our privileges are not for our pleasure but rather for our purpose.
Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
The duty of priviledge is absolute intregity
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.
When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture.
Pride. You have it where you can have it.
secrecy is a hotbed of vanity
I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility
Fighting to fit in. Confidence is paper thin.
Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.
Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent ...
Self-love, self-esteem.
Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.
Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice
Humble Hearts have humble desires.
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
The sweetness of self-denial and self-control,
The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.
Fear," said Lobsang. "An instinct that prevents many people from taking actions that they know, deep down inside, would liberate them. Like a bird in a cage whose door has been opened, we are free to go out in search of fulfillment, but fear makes us look for all kinds of reasons not to.
Self-respect,
the corner-stone of all virtue.
Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.
... Some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction.
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
Caprice and irresponsibility ... .
Those two words sum you up; your whole nature's contained in those
two words.
There are things far more valuable than private comfort or public admiration.
Damned thing, self-consciousness, like a pitiful stray dog tagging you down the road - so hard to shake off. So easy to get back.
Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate
PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in the bland middle region of respectability are lost without ever realizing it.
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy, but owing to some imperative necessity of action.
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
Worrying about what other people think is a jail of our own creation, and the irony of it is those people are in the same jail with us.
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.
[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers
Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.
Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.