“You are overly altruistic; you help too many people, people who in a million years would never reciprocate. You prioritise other peoples´ needs over your own.”
― Prepare to be tortured: - the price you will pay for dating a narcissist
― Prepare to be tortured: - the price you will pay for dating a narcissist
“Fully compliant, accommodating, and happy to continually play second fiddle, the codependent will put himself out if the net result is some form of gratitude or meaningful approval.”
― Prepare to be tortured: - the price you will pay for dating a narcissist
― Prepare to be tortured: - the price you will pay for dating a narcissist
“In essence, you will always put the needs of other people above your own. Always.”
― Prepare to be tortured: - the price you will pay for dating a narcissist
― Prepare to be tortured: - the price you will pay for dating a narcissist
“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. The slightest observation, however, might satisfy him, that, in all the ordinary situations of human life, a well-disposed mind may be equally calm, equally cheerful, and equally contented. Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others: but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice.”
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we think about ourselves, but the lie imbalances a situation. If you’re cheating on your wife the repression of that puts things out of balance; or if you’re someone you think you’re not, and you think you should be further ahead in your job, that neurotic vision takes over your life and you’re plagued by it until you’re cleansed. At the end of a play the lie is revealed. The better the play the more surprising and inevitable the lie is. Aristotle told us this”
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