La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad

But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the polarity of vision we considered earlier; it cannot be “memes versus...

I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one...

Your ego is everything man about yourself

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

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Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

My ego is really good. I don’t need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

I’d love to be what I have been.

Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss— unadulterated and unconfined—in which he transcended his own personality and became one with everything he...

Ego got you thinkin’ you’re workin’ somebody to your advantage; you’re just playin’ yourself.

If you are worrying about reputation, you are taking time away from doing the things that really matter.

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.

Guilt’s just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking that you’re making moral progress. Don’t fall for it, my dear.

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego’s sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you...

But us women, well, we like our egos stroked every once in a while and a boy mourning over us is a huge boost

Saying of the ProphetThe JudgeA man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

As I was driving down Beach Blvd., I saw a building that said, “Self Storage,” and I thought, “I wonder if my ego could possibly fit in just one unit.

Whatever they may think and say about their “egoism”, the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has...

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego...

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

It’s frustrating. It takes ego to get to the NFL. And your ego gets bruised a little bit when someone is taking your spot.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one’s ego except by love

To leave a man’s ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

If you like it, you’ll find a way to justify it.But if you don’t , you’ll find ways to falsify it.

Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.

So-called intellectuals conceptualize love; fools just love.Fools breathe air; intellectuals (so called) breathe ego.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.

God doesn’t give us pain to make us strong. He gives us strength to look inside ourselves and realize we are not innocent victims. When you learn humility, you are no longer a victim because...

The amazing ones are, those that don’t know it!

The Only mattered to him.Iconoclasm.

A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the...

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good...

When you’re appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone’s need for your approval.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these events don’t have to be the cause of ongoing suffering. Yes, these events...

He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed convictions; he subordinated everything to the incessant aggrandisement of his own ego. Despite being utterly devoid of real self-indulgence, he nevertheless indulged...

As if it wouldn’t rain without you…

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)

Huxley: “Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, and an Ayershire?”Bryce: “No.”Huxley: “Seabags Brown does.”Bryce: “I don’t see what that has to do…”Huxley: “What do you...

I’m not ugly but I’m not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren’t green or brown, but a muddle. I’m not thin but I’m not fat either. the only thing you could...

The better we become, the higher we climb. The higher we climb, the bigger our ego. The bigger the ego, the harder it is for us to look at others the same way we did...

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

I want to make sure Kiara’s got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep.