“It's only the savages who boast about healthy competition. Competition is but fodder for division and self-obsession.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Vainer you are, faster you fade.”
Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students
“The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.”
“No guns,
No greed,
No grandeur.
Period.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Greed makes us narrow,
Greed shrinks our soul.
Beyond greed lies gallantry,
Beyond greed all is whole.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Although we may suffer from idolatry, we do not, I think, suffer from materialism - from the overvaluing of material objects for their own sake. Of this the world accuses us. Yet our very wealth itself has somehow made us immune to materialism - the characteristic vice of impoverished peoples. Instead, our peculiar idolatry is one with which the world till now has been unfamiliar... To flood the world with images of ourselves. It is to these images and not the material objects that we are devoted. No wonder that the puzzled world finds this unattractive and calls it by the name of its own old-fashioned vices.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
“Here is the offense: "Apart from me, you can do nothing." Apart from Jesus, our leaves will turn yellow and fall off . Apart from Jesus, the fruit we bear will be watery and acidic, unfit for anything. Apart from Jesus, we will wither up and die . . . The problem is our obsession with ourselves.”
Source: Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul
“If all you do is care for your own elevation, then at the end of the day, you'll find yourself six feet under.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“The time, simply and plainly, undresses one's self-obsession.”
“It is true that my shunning was a message from our community to my mother. Her rejection of me was a measure of the humiliation she felt. She believed until her death that I caused her to lose her friends and her stature in the town.”
Source: Without a Map