"Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered."
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45 quotes about ego
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ego Quotes
"Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past."
"Such Excessive Preoccupation With The Faults Of Others Only Manages To Bring The Spotlight To Shine Bright On Whatever It Is You May Have Hiding Behind All Your Self Perceived Glory."
"Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain."
"Hate. Huh. He'd never hated himself. If anything, he'd always liked himself a little too much. Once, a human female had even accused him of picturing his own face while he climaxed. He hadn't denied it, either, and next time he'd slept with her, he'd made sure to scream, "Strider"at the pivotal moment."--Strider, keeper of the demon of Defeat--"
"Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'."
"If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse."
"Pure Soul and circumstances; there are only these two; but the disturbance of egoism does not allow it to be at peace."
"If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it."
"Anyway, the trick is simply this: No matter what happens, keep your heart open. Wide open. The heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the arrogance of ego would presume that it requires protection. To open your heart is to reduce your ego, and this is the only magic that is ever required to experience the naked truth."
"Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible."
"The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other's shoulders / through the mirage."
"I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point."
"Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you."
"People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love."
"We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth."
"You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak."
"Don't feed your ego with my soul."
"The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego."
"sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted – stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many will consider anobnoxious thought:it’s still nice to beBukowski."