#narcissist

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#liars #manipulation #men-and-women #narcissism #narcissists

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#always #been #before #being #between

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#aging #allows #being #case #children

I've always been a narcissist. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#been #i #narcissist

A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#narcissism #r-alan-woods #sociopaths #victims-of-narcissists #abuse

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#kinder #life #narcissist #nobody #own

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time. ↗

— Andrew Sarris

#compassion #i #long #long time #lot

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#already #because #connection #direct #direct connection

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#better looking #looking #narcissist #someone #than

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#humility #love #narcissism #narcissistic #objective