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self-satisfaction

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The quality or state of being self-satisfied.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question. Georges Bernanos

Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction and knowing you've made the effort, do the best of what you're capable. John Wooden

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

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength. Christopher Isherwood

I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour. W. Somerset Maugham

However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of. Vincent de Paul

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