You’ll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at the time. Now he considers the nature of diamonds. Although sharp and glittering...

Yüksek ego kendini evrenin kralı gibi görmeni sağlar, h lbuki gerçekte hiçbir şeyin kralısın!

A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.

Despite our instinct to polarize ourselves in the name of survival, an indescribable connection – call it love or compassion – pervades and dissolves our apparent separation. This oneness transcends physical and emotional relationships; it’s...

Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writing...

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

When relying solely on ego, we are given many messages that are contrary to the achievement of that happy and fulfilling life that most of us actually desire.

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth,...

In this storyI am the poetYou’re the poetry.

EGO means attachment to layers of our unexamined thoughts and illusions.We avoid self inquiry because it shatters our belief system and false image.

Atheism is a religion of egoism….they hate the name “God” so much that they INSIST that whatever CAUSED BigBang should not be called anything else except Bigbang.

problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and...

Your love is as stable as you are: It’s not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

No matter how great you are, you could always be greater. Let this be a lesson in the need to lessen the size of your ego.

La codicia os daña: la generosidad os ayuda. Por eso se ha dicho: “La codicia es la madre de la incapacidad”.

Who I am is unimportant. But who I am is very important. I’ll suppress my ego now, every occurring now, so I can achieve my maximum later.

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.

The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence....

Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 –

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

In prayer all are equal.

Do you ever see a man who struts around altogether too large to notice an ordinary working mechanic? Do you think he is great? He is nothing but a puffed-up balloon, held down by his...

Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to...

I feel so trapped, by my ego.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved...

We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of...

By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along...

It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you set aside your ego.

I? This is the very root of all evil.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you’re self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one...

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.

I hid my wound under my clothes. Nobody could see it, including myself, and I completely forgot about it. Then I met someone who, filled with love, held me tight in that point. The pain...

In the cosmos of time, there’s not a cocksucker in this room who is more than a fart in the wind!

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one’s own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the “I”....

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Few approach Nick the rest of the night, I am the only one brave enough to take him his specially made tea. “Thank you”, he said barely glancing up at me.”You’re welcome”, I said waiting...

If you’re brighter than a lightning bug, don’t show your ass

Snakes hiss; pigs grunt; and bills moo! They are asserting their ego, intent on keeping others away. Of the traits of ego, pride is the most poisonous. But, the pride of the scholar and the...

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not...

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question…so break ‘yo’self’!

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking to encounter them and even worse to work with them.

Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.