I recommend viewing your own importance from the per-spective…
I recommend viewing your own importance from the per-spective of the next century-from a point when your good name will have dwindled to a zero, no matter how fabulous you might be today. A fundamental part of the good life is not being too full of yourself. In fact, there's an inverse correlation: the less you stand upon your ego, the better your life will be.
— from The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection) · Art of the Good Life: Clear Thinking for Business and a Better Life by Rolf Dobelli
In the book
And one warning at the threshold: do not be too full of yourself. There is an inverse correlation between ego and a good life — the less you stand upon your own importance, the better your life tends to go. Self-importance is also simply exhausting: if you think too highly of yourself you have to run a transmitter and a radar at the same time, broadcasting your image out into the world while anxiously tracking how the world responds. — The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection)