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Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.


Dean Koontz

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JANE GREEN When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af...
MICHAEL STEIN Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF Dean Koontz always find way out of the horror and when it's about silence he should be the first ima...
DEYTH BANGER I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being whe...
JAMES DASHNER i want to sleep for my whole life, because in my dreams, you are everywhere around me.
PRASOON DWIVEDI You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never...
RAYMOND E. FEIST Middle age is when your age starts to show through your middle… and trust me, MIss, your age doesn...
SHAYLA ORICK people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and inte...
DEAN KOONTZ It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little...
BEN MARCUS Being in love makes the pain of life seem so insignificant.
TROY J. GAINEY I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Remembering people is the most fundamental gesture of love and respect. For me, there are people in ...
TOM REISS There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and doe...
RICHIE NORTON It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists...
MATT TAIBBI In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility aris...
ECKHART TOLLE Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater...
BRYANT H. MCGILL It amazes me how much she does.
ELLEN KORZ Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries ...
DEAN KOONTZ I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might...
STEPHENIE MEYER No man is taller than his head, and there is no big brain that is bigger than the head!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's everything to me. This is my life. I love football so much.
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS Almost every so called setback is an opportunity for growth, learning, self love, wisdom and humilit...
RASHEED OGUNLARU Thinking about how much they sacrifice amazes me.
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the wor...
ELTON JOHN I hug him tightly. “I can’t imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it fright...
E.L. JAMES In this world only the paranoid survive.
DEAN KOONTZ If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where...
ISABELLE HUPPERT Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanati...
ANDREW MURRAY Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.
DAVE PELZER It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comf...
DAVID CAMERON As much as we are to walk in Love, God also requires faithfulness, obedience, honesty, integrity, an...
TRAVIS J HEDRICK In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") Sometimes people put on so much weight by consuming too much food,not because they love food so much...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is nothing to be proud of in this life except in ones humility.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Abiding does not mean sitting idly by. It means resting in the work, resting in the moment, resting ...
ROBIN BERTRAM Narcissists are consumed with maintaining a shallow false self to others. They're emotionally crippl...
SHANNON L. ALDER This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to...
JAMES LECESNE You seem irrelevant because your relevance seems latent. You seem irrelevant because your relevance ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love in this life is expanded by our anticipation of the next life. Those who love under God are nev...
CRISS JAMI Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect ...
MARK SANFORD Do not just think about the destination when you start the journey or just mind the direction of you...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing abou...
WALKER PERCY When you are in love, that one person would seem to be perfect even in imperfection
PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE Humility is by far the most spiritual virtue of the lot. The only way by which one may cease obsessi...
CRISS JAMI I believe in common sense. I don't believe in the confusion this world has created. Religion has tur...
NERISSA IRVING A man is not an elder because his head is grey; his age may be ripe, but he is called 'Old-in-vain.'
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on persona...
JAMES GORMAN I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to...
PATRICK NESS Love doesn't want people to stay ignorant and frightened. Love doesn't value obedience over all else...
STACEY JAY Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissis...
CORNEL WEST Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respe...
GAYLE LYNDS Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply lo...
JOHN LACHS They're really into it, laughing and teasing each other, and I am looking at Pam and thinking once a...
JAMES HOWE If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do ...
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially ...
ERNIE HARWELL It gives me so much hope because this is really what I want to do for the rest of my life.
ASHLEY WHEELER What really amazes me is, everybody is all upset because of Rainforest and this has been going on fo...
GREG GALLASPY To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who ...
AMITY GAIGE Market pressures which would normally enable competition to bite don't seem to be working in this in...
KIP MEEK I would love for the people in these sites to tell me we are doing too much for them, This parish ha...
EMILY CAMPBELL I think so, because he's such an important coach and he's known everywhere. It's going to seem a lit...
JUSTIN CAGE Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love ...
CRISS JAMI People who are right out of high school, in their early 20s – it amazes me what they eat.
JOSH TAYLOR For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it am...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're...
ROSANNA ARQUETTE Everywhere I go, people know me because I played winter ball [in the Dominican]. I heard it everywhe...
EUDE BRITO I just feel there are moments in one's life when you have to stand up and be counted, and for me, th...
ANSON CHAN There are two aspect of life. One is evil.Protect yourself from self destructive evil like anger, je...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Through transcendence of duality, we foster greater unity in our lives, which brings about inner pea...
ALARIC HUTCHINSON The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I played the best role in my life. I had a great director.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA I think that it makes them closer and makes them more positive toward each other. They seem to be al...
ANGIE MYERS When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there ar...
MICHELLE MONAGHAN Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact,...
LINDSAY LOHAN The rich, the poor, the high professor and the prophane [sic], seem all to be infected with this gri...
CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he...
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Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life?
The most prof...
STEPHEN COPE What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to prese...
CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN In the end, you have only yourself to depend on. It's up to you to make sure that you're strong enou...
JENNIFER ESTEP My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous....
MICHAEL EASTON We're sitting on our blessed Mother Earth from which we get our strength and determination, love and...
PHIL LANE SR. When an animal companion becomes part of your life, there's an opportunity for you to experience lov...
AMY MILLER My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Ma...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Connections and relationships are important everywhere, anywhere - of course in China, because the r...
VINCENT LO Humility is not an innate trait, but it can be learned. Many mistake humility for weakness. But humi...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA This is why humility was so important. It was the soul's way of short-circuiting the damage that cou...
KATE COOPER Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this s...
DANA HUSSEIN Self discipline is essence of life. Through self discipline you are able to inculcate good habits an...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA would seem as though language is the only predestination of man, and that he is created to bring it ...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEEN I was in love with Keith Foster.
DOROTHY HALLAS In general I would not recommend someone to get pregnant at this age, ... Pregnancy at this age can ...
JANE MILLER I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that,...
ALLY CONDIE Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu...
KATHLEEN TESSARO I love night more than day--she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings My ...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you...
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DEAN KOONTZ They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the...
DEAN KOONTZ Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.
DEAN KOONTZ I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."

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DEAN KOONTZ Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drin...
DEAN KOONTZ It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear...
DEAN KOONTZ You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.
DEAN KOONTZ From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...
DEAN KOONTZ That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...
DEAN KOONTZ She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w...
DEAN KOONTZ For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
DEAN KOONTZ One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I...
DEAN KOONTZ I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
DEAN KOONTZ That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.
DEAN KOONTZ Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
DEAN KOONTZ The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with...
DEAN KOONTZ The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen i...
DEAN KOONTZ Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog...
DEAN KOONTZ it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a...
DEAN KOONTZ Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it ...
DEAN KOONTZ Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life c...
DEAN KOONTZ There’s such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But ...
DEAN KOONTZ He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was s...
DEAN KOONTZ The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
DEAN KOONTZ He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not ...
DEAN KOONTZ His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cat...
DEAN KOONTZ The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them...
DEAN KOONTZ But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s in...
DEAN KOONTZ You amaze me and scare me. I can’t figure where you came from or how you got to be what you are, b...
DEAN KOONTZ