Ego Quote by Alan Cohen Download Open image ““The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.”” — Alan Cohen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ego Love Past Present Romance Time True romance
“It is easy to romanticize the past than it is to anticipate for the unknown.” — Catherine B. Alal Copy Share Image
“Romantic Egoist Besides, love is just one among many mysteries that logic alone cannot explain.” — Bisco Hatori Copy Share Image
“A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
“Egoism is harmful, the moment one realizes that then everything will become straightforward. The ego is not worth protecting.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Romance is a lie that gives people an excuse to act like fools and later blame it on the one whom they had bestowed… — Quinn Loftis Copy Share Image
“but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I festered with this duality of love and ego, where ego scorns the very love its seeking and then despairs in its absence.” — Meghna Pant Copy Share Image
“The romantic is always intelligent, and I only meant to observe that although we have had foolish romantics, they don't count.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.” — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“newspaper ads for lost pets and earthquakes that soon follow. Other studies indicate a higher rate of last-minute cancellations for airplane flights that crash.… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily—more easily— use it to formulate answers.” — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
'How can I be more like you?' she asked the guru. 'The best way to be more like me is to be more like… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you.… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships. — Gabriel Macht Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if… — David Brin Copy Share
“There are two kinds of people: goal-oriented and ego-oriented. Goal-oriented people work together and get things gone. Ego-oriented people don’t work.” — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken… — Rutger Hauer Copy Share Image
It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
