Art for Wired on Flickr.
liberation bulb
Art for Wired on Flickr.
liberation bulb
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
― Victor Hugo
The Little Book of Photo-shoppe Trickery
| — | Barbara Marciniak (via sarahbethmodel) |
Oh, you are right, but not in the way you’ve presented it. (What you described is bigotry, which has little to do with conceit.)
Being confident is being sure of yourself, while being conceited is having an excessively favorable opinion of yourself—excessive meaning “above the normal or permitted limits”. The distinction isn’t in how you treat other people or even in how you feel about yourself; it’s in whether or not the person describing you is okay with you feeling good about yourself.
Anytime you like yourself more than someone thinks you should, you’ll be labeled conceited—the rest of the time, you’ll be labeled confident. Their meanings reflect the feelings of the person using them, not the person they’re describing.
| — | Elizabeth Gilbert (via daisydandelions) |
Morgan & Milo Shoe box