Precious

Famous quotes containing the word precious:

    Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but
    now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.
    Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)

    Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain’t-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on—our lost narcissism lives on—in our ego ideal.
    Judith Viorst (20th century)