When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realization turns into self-absorption, other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.

Sometimes informality breeds rudeness. Maybe companies that are very informal manage to keep stress levels down. But if it's very informal, workers might not know what their boundaries are.

....a crucial measure of our success in life is the way we treat one another every day of our lives.

They think the world revolves around them and they are not considerate. They are not kind. They are trapped in a cage of narcissism we have built for them.

The caged bird is perched upon her grave of fallen dreams; like the shadows of just one more nightmare scream of a few more ugly words clipping away at her wings bound to the cage as dreams of flight will never be!

Being in pain, doesn't give one license to cause pain.