Quotes

"It is shocking that there are people who can cause the emotional devastation of other human beings, then dance happily on the ruins." ~Kristyn Riley Crow

"There is part of me that yearns for approval; there is part of me that yearns to live free from the constraint of opinion." ~the box lady

"It's never going to be a perfect world, but we can choose to view it in the best possible light." ~the box lady

"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."  ~Sigmund Freud 

"Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms." ~Elizabeth Bowen

"Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference." ~Mason Cooley

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." ~Dr. Seuss

"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy." ~Nora Ephron

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." ~T.S. Eliot

"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures . . . They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities." ~George Gerbner