{"quotes":[{"text":"In a fit of anger he had said to her, 'You'll always be miserable,' to which she thoughtfully replied, 'Is that so? It's impossible to be miserable when you've known tragedy and hardship. Both strengthen and refine a person to the point where they may have moments of grief and sadness, but misery is known only to those who have a sense of entitlement...You know, people like you.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["entitlement","hardship","strength","tragedy","tragic","weakness"],"id":4270,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"Because when we give too many fucks, when we choose to give a fuck about everything, then we feel as though we are perpetually entitled to feel comfortable and happy at all times, that’s when life fucks us.","author":"Mark Manson","tags":["entitlement","motivational"],"id":8843,"author_id":"Mark+Manson"},{"text":"If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["blessing","blessings","careless","carelessness","discover","discovered","entitlement","forget","forgetfulness","forgot","forsake","forsaken","greed","ignorance","laziness","lazy","lose","loss","losses","lost","opportunity","owed","possess","possession","privilege","rights","self-centered","selfish","selfishness","stupid","stupidity"],"id":10125,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Narcissistic personality disorder is named for Narcissus, from Greek mythology, who fell in love with his own reflection. Freud used the term to describe persons who were self-absorbed, and psychoanalysts have focused on the narcissist's need to bolster his or her self-esteem through grandiose fantasy, exaggerated ambition, exhibitionism, and feelings of entitlement.","author":"Donald W. Black","tags":["entitlement","fantasy","grandiose","greek-mythology","mythology","narcissism","narcissist","narcissistic","narcissus","personality-disorder","self-absorbed"],"id":11842,"author_id":"Donald+W.+Black"},{"text":"Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["entitlement","forsake","person","persona","rumors","sacrifice","self","self-help"],"id":18421,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["business","cancer","entitlement","gratitude","nations","relationships"],"id":25961,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself--his extra sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalked slug's eye which extrudes, expands, winces and shrivels back into himself when touched wrongly, grows big again. Bulging a little at the tip, traveling forward as if along a leaf into them, avid for vision. To achieve vision in this way; this journey into a darkness that is composed of women--a woman--who can see in darkness while he himself strains blindly forward.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["darkness","entitlement","men","privilege","vision","women"],"id":31745,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we’ve engaged in ‘right’ living, verses believing that living is a ‘right.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["conscience","entitlement","life","living","obligation","peace","rights"],"id":35995,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Because when you give too many fucks—when you give a fuck about everyone and everything—you will feel that you’re perpetually entitled to be comfortable and happy at all times, that everything is supposed to be just exactly the fucking way you want it to be. This is a sickness. And it will eat you alive. You will see every adversity as an injustice, every challenge as a failure, every inconvenience as a personal slight, every disagreement as a betrayal.","author":"Mark Manson","tags":["adversity","entitlement","failure","happy","injustice"],"id":41627,"author_id":"Mark+Manson"},{"text":"Rebuffed from his fine feelings, Milkman matched her cold tone. 'You loved those white folks that much?'Love?' she asked. 'Love?'Well, what are you taking care of their dogs for?'Do you know why she killed herself? She couldn't stand to see the place go to ruin. She couldn't live without servants and money and what it could buy. Every cent was gone and the taxes took whatever came in. She had to let the upstairs maids go, then the cook, then the dog trainer, then the yardman, then the chauffeur, then the car, then the woman who washed once a week. Then she started selling bits and pieces––land, jewels, furniture. The last few years we ate out of the garden. Finally she couldn't take it anymore. The thought of having no help, no money––well, she couldn't take that. She had to let everything go.'But she didn't let you go.' Milkman had no trouble letting his words snarl.'No, she didn't let me go. She killed herself.'And you still l.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["entitlement","servitude","suicide"],"id":50566,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":73,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}