“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people.… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Surrender is not that you should give up your family, give up your children, or give up your houses and homes and… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer. But he was also… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
As Hubert Benoit said, it is not the identification with the ego that is the problem, but the exclusive nature of the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
You may restrain my body and you may tear my guts out, do anything you wish, but I am still me and… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from… — Lester Hayes Copy Share Image
You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
We get punched in the face, you can break your nose, you can ruin your career by knee surgeries or things like… — Mackenzie Dern Copy Share Image
I'm a mom... and I'm learning this being a parent, sometimes your child can be such a reflection of who you are.… — Adina Porter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there; it's about… — John Grant Copy Share Image
All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Relate to a life situation in the deepest sense: not from the standpoint of the ego that bemoans its fate and rebels… — Max Zeller Copy Share Image
“It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I think what kind of destroyed the franchise, in some ways, was ego and vanity. When that element of ego and vanity… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed,… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“there is a fine line between self-confidence and Ego If you have self-confidence you will know that you are good ,, excellent… — Iman Ahmed el sawalhy Copy Share Image
I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm… — John Denver Copy Share Image
The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
As big as my ego may be, I'm really not of the belief that I can't be replaced. I didn't invent the… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices,… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Entertainment's hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there's so much 'we don't want you' going… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
What I love about the way they both [Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix] work is that all of the monkey business… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm.… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
The productive sender is the outer world, the external reality including our own body. The receiver is our deep self, the conscious… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
![“If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.” quote by Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bfc/eckhart-tolle-81_acquaintance_if-you-have-a-strong-ego-and-something-g_1056270.jpg)
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