#ego

"If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse."

"Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience."

"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."

"The brightest light casts the darkest shadow."

"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."

"The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil."

"The square root of I is I."

"Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered."

"Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen."

"Don't feed your ego with my soul."

"Pure Soul and circumstances; there are only these two; but the disturbance of egoism does not allow it to be at peace."

"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."

"Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain."

"I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind."

"The illusion, as ego suggests, is that it's about time - mechanical mind; it is not. It is, however, all about conscious space - something [the] soul has always known."

"The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego."

"Not everything is about you,"Clary said furiously."Possibly,"Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are."

"Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego."

"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'."

"The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it."