… his second… must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.

A person’s Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy.

Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Bazı küçük kum taneleri o kadar egoyla doludurlar ki kendilerini dev bir kaya gibi görürler! Fakat sonra rüzg r eser, büyük ego havada uçar!

Three-letter word that kills you for sure – Ego.

We can’t all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.

When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.

The more “things” I have, the more time I spend thinking about them, moving them around, fixing them, looking for them, or upgrading them.

More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever...

Very well, young man, very well,” Treville went on, “I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in...

The createst trick the ego has ever pulled of was to convince you that you need it.

I speak as if he had no secrets from me. Well, then, you must know I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror....

The world doesn’t revolve around you!”The earth was fragile and mostly water,just the way the orange was mostly water if you peeled it,just the way I was mostly water if you peeled me.Looking back on...

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ’s...

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.

You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life.

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

oh God! what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men’s esteem?

The ego wants to own every­thing; this denies the invinci­bility of surrender, the hand­maid­en of love.

I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having ‘no edge’ being simple and worse, harmless.

To know God begins with knowing ourselves, our true selves, whom we uncover as we make choices that help us step beyond the influence of the ego.

There is a place where there is freedom of fear and doubt, and that is within.

I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner source of love and truth – the inner language of silence.Now I also...

The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of “truth”. It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.

Don’t indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.

Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.

According to Hugh Thomas, author of ‘A History of the World’, the greatest medical advance in history has been garbage collection. The greatest psychological advance in history is just around the corner and will also...

Not everything is about you,” Clary said furiously.”Possibly,” Jace said, “but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?

When we live in the ego, we are human. When we live in the Awareness of the Oneness, we are Human Angels

God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his...

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to ‘one-upping’ his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no...

El Sendero no se encuentra en el rosario, la alfombra de oración y el manto”.

agreements”, enters in. Another life offers another opportunity, a chance to ‘switch flavors’ so to speak.Taking oneself too personally, however, can cause a soul to get caught up, stuck in redundancy: in a particular (and...

Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.

The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the...

It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.

Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

It’s very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you’re always fighting is ego.

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact...

Pride can be friend, ego can be foe…depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.

…frankly, many times, the people that we resent either have no idea about it or could care less.