Belief Quote by Nayef Al-Rodhan

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

— Robert Greene

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

— Samuel Johnson

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be…

— RM

“How we interact in our world that we inhabit determines how much happiness human beings enjoy. The ego guides human beings in performing their…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

— Eckhart Tolle

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

— John Bowlby

Emotions can be said to be the fire of attraction and repulsion between human beings.

— Kumar Anupam

I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security -…

— Richard Rohr

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their…

— Eckhart Tolle

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

— Al-Ghazali

We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate…

— Frederic Bastiat

“emotions are not amoral—they vocalize the inner working of our souls and are as tainted as any other portion of our personality.”

— Dan Allender