Quotes on Self-satisfaction

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.