"When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires."

-- P. M. Forni

#Mean Quotes #Eye Quotes #Self Quotes

“I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe”
“I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.”
“We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.”
“I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1887). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”
“I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.”
“So over time, playing shows - after every show we would have pow-wow, I would have notes and we'd go over and we'd really restructure and re-do and now I feel really, really good about the show. But it's taken time.”
“Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.”
“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.”

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