Show me a person who really knows what ‘good’ is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

What a surprise it is to discover that you have never needed to strive to survive and be happy after all. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, who discovered that she always had the...

Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.

Mind makes a man of God.

[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego’s...

a great inventor needs a healthy amount of conceit. Mr. Bell and, fellow inventor, Mr. Edison would declare they’d created the moon and the tides between them if they could get away with the claim.

It won’t matter if nobody ever thinks I’m pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)

Choose to collaborate (abundance perspective) and watch your competitors (scarcity perspective) become your allies.

Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are...

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

Though people know the meaning of the word acceptance, people are ignorant about it. Thinking acceptance may hurt their self esteem.

If you’re a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited.

The fact that both ego and self say “I” is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, “I am what I know myself to be.” The self says merely, “I am.

Being big enough to know when you are small, makes you gigantic. Lack of humility is not necessarily the down fall of great relationships, it is the slippery slide ego and pride take you down...

I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our ‘abusers’. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment....

Until the ego dissolves or evolves to become one with our true self, we remain slaves of our own egos.

Joy is a choice, not an outcome.

Deslumbrado y alterado por esa luz, pero también por ser únicamente el doctor Pasavento, quise creer que todo lo que me pasaba era, simple y llanamente, producto de una fuerte resaca. Porque si uno lo...

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman’s terms, with physics generally. But even then his concentration was marred, for a lifetime’s habit...

La pereza es siempre culpa tuya. Es el signo de que un hombre ha perseverado inútilmente durante mucho tiempo.

Being disciplined with an ego that makes you to feel like you can never be disciplined by any other person is “indiscipline”.

You said just now, “Don’t be so ashamed of yourself, because that’s the root of your trouble”––with those words, you seem to have reached right into my innermost soul. What I mean is, when I...

Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness.

Not all days are same… Not all people remains same… Time and Ego shall deemed guilty for the same….

She realized that her undiluted love had also given him the power to hurt her but she decided that spirit of the soul can always transcend the pain of the ego.

Don’t plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you’ll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.

God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either...

I’ve played too long to let my ego get in the way, or my pride — to say, ‘I have to play shortstop’ or something like that. You know what? I played 10 years at...

Cut the Ë I ‘ feeling clean across and let your ego die on the Cross, to endow on you Eternity.

But if you were any different you wouldn’t be human.

Ego and pride is a two headed twist.

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I’m a very important person.

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn’t work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and...

The pain of the narcissist is that, to him, everything is really a threat. What doesn’t surrender in reverence is blasphemous to a high opinion of oneself – the burden of self-importance. The narcissist reconstructs...

I need a Caution: Slippery When Wet sign, because I just spilled my ego all over the floor.

Cuando se ejercita la humildad, la gente comienza a advertir que, por así decirlo, no existe en modo alguno.

To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never...

The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It’s a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.

In life there are often moments when the battle is between a relationship that means a lot and a small yet dangerous three letter word ‘EGO’. Don’t let this devil win and make you a...

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

Smiling for no reason at all is the reason i’m smiling

Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.

If you think you’re smart,think twice to be smarter.