vanity

If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.

Smile is the vainest thing you can wear without costing you anything

She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.

I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity.

A dead man__ vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being__ pride.

At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.

He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz

When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.

The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion they begin to care more for ambition than for education. It is no longer a world in which the souls of all are equal before heaven, but a world in which the mind of each is bent on achieving unequal advantage over the other. There begins to be a mere vanity in being educated whether it be self-educated or merely state-educated. Education ought to be a searchlight given to a man to explore everything, but very specially the things most distant from himself. Education tends to be a spotlight; which is centered entirely on himself. Some improvement may be made by turning equally vivid and perhaps vulgar spotlights upon a large number of other people as well. But the only final cure is to turn off the limelight and let him realize the stars.

In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in his pride and because narcissism was no longer considered a vice. That was what the whole cult of celebrity was about, she thought; and we fêted these people and fed their vanity.

There may not be an emotion more complex than the dual stations of pride. The positive connation of pride _ the telluric current resulting from both natural causes and interactions of human beings _ flows from the conception of applying a person__ best effort to accomplish worthwhile tasks. The negative connotation of pride refers to an inflated sense of one__ personal status or accomplishments.

While many people are proud of being self-made, it only explains all the flaws.

In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride__r superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation__akes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to do is assert how well things are going for us, just as friendship has a chance to grow only when we fare to share what we are afraid of and regret. The rest is merely showmanship. The flaws whose exposure we so dread, the indiscretions we know we would be mocked for, the secrets that keep our conversations with our so-called friends superficial and inert__ll of these emerge as simply part of the human condition.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.