Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
His frown was less dark and more confused."What's new for you? Dancing?" And so much more, but all I said was, "Yes."… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It's [“Into Thin Air”] there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for… — David Breashears Copy Share Image
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to think that God has conflict with anything. He's everything. So the more close you are to God, how… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Now I know that if I'm in a fight or a big argument with executives or the studio or whoever, and it's… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have no theories about the divorce rate or things like that, but it does occur to me that dealing with kids… — Ken Howard Copy Share Image
It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos,… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Your language, dear," Victoria reproved gently. "A lady never curses in public. There are much better ways to handle the delicate male… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
“The ego is the culmination of our preferences and dislikes. Our ego represents the firm edges of how we perceive ourselves. An… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“A man of wisdom always looks at every problem from the other’s point of view also. You cannot be wise if you… — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
As far as base humiliation goes, acting is a tough business. It's a tough, embarrassing thing to do for a living when… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was reading a Time magazine interview with an author named Brené Brown. She said, "People that fail seem to ultimately do… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing. I feel vulnerable to the astonishing… — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things--led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix,… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
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