Vanity Quotes
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"I want to make something of myself. I believe it’s called a statue."
"The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul’s worth."
"How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves."
"She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."
"But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."
"Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation."
"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you."
"I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart."
"I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them."
"The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked."
"Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'."
"She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' "The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity."
"Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor."
"I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits."
"I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent."
"Vanity is man's love affair with himself."
"Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it."
"As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate."
"That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and likes its own. Consequently there is nothing which so carries the mass of men along with it as that which flatters the vanity of the human mind. It may assume the lowliest air, but sinful man seeks his own honour and present exaltation."
"Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."
"If you reflect on death, you find the vanity of life."
"When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters."
"Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory"
"Vanity is my favourite sin."
"Every men wanted to be his friend and every woman wanted to be in his bed"
"Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them, yet without hiding itself from their sight, and in retiring draws them on. At every moment they think they are about to grasp it; it escapes at every moment from their hold. They are near enough to see its charms, but too far off to enjoy them; and before they have fully tasted its delights they die."
"I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."
"It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now"
William Makepeace Thackeray, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. written by himself
"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
"Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind."
"We must turn from worthless things towards faith in God."
"You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal."
"@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit."
"A man's vanity often goes hand in hand with his lack of knowledge."
"Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance."
"Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life."
"Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him"
"It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery."
"The chase of the whirlwind is vanity."
"You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching movies and making unnecessary phone calls your life is diminishing into vanity."
"Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions."
"Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions."
"To prevent your time from just melting into vanity, you must race against time and stand in the way of time so you could convert it to tangible products."
"Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a part of the lazy lot who cannot discipline themselves in solitude to convert their time into products or added value."
"To allow your time evaporate each day without a product to show for it is to allow your life evaporate into vanity."
"Do not live for emptiness, do not waste your evaporating life pursuing the vanities of life."
"You must intercept the passing time well, hence it will fly away into vanity."
"Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame."
"When the world shifts its focus on heart over mind, we will finally experience a beautiful global village for our children."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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