{"quotes":[{"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":"In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.","author":"Chris Barber","tags":["life","america","self-absorbed "],"id":60504,"author_id":"Chris+Barber"},{"text":"I'd like to say I'm not self-absorbed compared to others, but that's hard to say since I'm far too self-absorbed to pry into others' self-absorption.","author":"Anonymous","tags":["humor","identity","self-absorbed"],"id":72199,"author_id":"Anonymous"},{"text":"Who or what inspires you?'I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself.","author":"Eoin Colfer","tags":["foaly","humour","inpiration","self-absorbed"],"id":73173,"author_id":"Eoin+Colfer"},{"text":"You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["betrayal","choices","class","conflict","conned","cruelty","deceit","dignity","dismissal","family","friends","games","hateful","hatred","healing","hurt","ignorance","inhumanity","lessons","letting-go","love","mean-people","mind-games","moving-on","overlooked","pain","rejection","relationships","resolutions","revenge","self-absorbed","self-respect","self-worth","selfishness","vengful"],"id":78246,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bias","bigotry","blinded","discriminatin","dogs","hatred","humor","ignorance","judgement","neighbors","not-caring","prejudice","sarcasim","self-absorbed","stay-positive","strangers","uneducated","wacko","witch-hunts"],"id":79108,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Empowered Women 101: A confident and faithful woman that loves herself and knows what she is capable of creating will attract the right man that will want to be part of that plan. God won't bring her a man that she has to mold into what she wants him to be. A relationship is about two people helping one another grow, not just one.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["balance","caring","creating","empowered-women-101","narcissism","self-absorbed","self-centered","selfish","shaing","stayingpositiveu-com","togetherness"],"id":106217,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["battles","confidence","conflict","dating","decisions","delusion","dignity","divorce","empty","family","fantasy","fights","friends","glass-is-half-empty","goals","incomplete","inner-work","love-for-one-another","marital-issues","mental-health","real-life","reality","relationship-problems","relationships","self-absorbed","self-esteem","self-evaluation","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","self-work","self-worth","selfish","selfishness","seperation","shallowness","staying-positive","strife","therapy","value"],"id":127251,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Mrs. P.? Oh no. She’s the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if there’s one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, it’s the availability of quality staff . . .” The words died away on my lips: once again I found myself trailing off in the stare of those unblinking eyes. This fellow was like some kind of after-dinner black hole. My anxiety began to mount again.","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["clueless","current-events","ignorant","self-absorbed","small-talk","wealth"],"id":130513,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"},{"text":"Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["burden","detractors","distract","egocentric","egoism","egotism","egotist","fake-friends","fatal","laziness","lazy","michael-bassey-johnson","mission","narcissism","parasites","perch","satisfaction","self-absorbed","self-centred","self-interest","self-obsessed","vain"],"id":168283,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}