Form Quote by Luke Timothy Johnson Download Open image “It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.” — Luke Timothy Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Form Narcissism Needs Suits
“If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“This narrative is the basis for the everyday narcissism that almost everyone shares. Why is this a form of narcissism? Because, as a result of the lifelong training I’ve just described, almost all of us live by the following unconscious (and false) principles: •I am responsible for how other people feel and behave. Therefore, I experience myself as all-powerful. •I… — Nancy Van Dyken Copy Share
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in their evocation of dreams, mysterious places and states of mind, in their excess of words, not events. The surface of the texts, the sound of the words, point to themselves as manufactured, as illusion. The decadents… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share
At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“This vivid consciousness of not being able to be or to do but one thing at a time purifies our demands of what that… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other. — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting is one long sacrificial act…parenting reveals the way that… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“Those who are in pain – most of the world’s populations at any given moment – do not do a lot of thinking, speaking,… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“We must let go of any fantasy concerning the church as a stable, predictable, well-regulated organization. If the church is truly the place in… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways,… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“If we are called to attention by God’s Life and Holy Spirit, then the ‘spiritual life’ is not a pleasant option we might like… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“What is it, really, that we could lose if we handed ourselves over to the discernment of faith? Would we really lose anything except… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is our contemporary culture’s tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“For if there is an actual and present rule of God in the world, then it must be found, not in the conquest of… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived. — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
“Faith is first of all not attachment to a body of doctrines but a process of responding in obedience and trust to God’s Word.… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
The Copa del Rey is a different competition. It is football in its purest form and is different from the continuity of the league. — Michael Laudrup Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
