The punishment – to the body, the brain, the spirit – a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Many people believe that making themselves the key person in their lives is a bad thing. It's simply good common sense. After… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
I think it helps to have a good old-fashioned trajectory, plodding along. Obviously one has an ego and it's really easy to… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
You should be able to drink a clean cup of water and you should be able to write your own name. That's… — Asher Roth Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Will is the idea that I'm going to make this thing happen. Intent is inspiration - allowing it to take place. I… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It's always a fun collaboration with my brother. I'm very fortunate to be able to work with him. There's an honesty to… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I've always been really turned off by a show where you're kind of just rooting for someone regardless of the stupid things… — Ramy Youssef Copy Share Image
In music, as you develop a theme or musical idea, there are many points at which directions must be decided, and at… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
There is no possibility of relaxation if you have a mind and an ego; the ego is the center of the mind.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
You have to make sure you have a relatable emotion through the movie. You have to check your ego and go into… — James Lassiter Copy Share Image
My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
It almost always happens that people enjoy a few moments and then afterwards feel very guilty. The guilt arises because of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
I love when I get to play these characters that are bigger than life. There are roles in animation that I never… — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Sorry ladies, don't believe the myth that a good woman is going to make a player a one woman man. A man… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“According to Hugh Thomas, author of 'A History of the World', the greatest medical advance in history has been garbage collection. The… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice,… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Hollywood overstates both the romance of marriage and the prevalence of divorce. Celebrities have divorce rates that are atypical and higher than… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
“While hugging a tree, I had this thought... People used to tell me I was too picky. People told me I should… — Laurence BL Copy Share Image
“I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image