All Quotes By Tag: Ego
“While you were busy working on your ego, she was busy working on her soul.”
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“Am I entitled to my ego if my ego has manufactured impressive results?”
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“We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway…Awakening does not feed ego’s needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn’t knowingly bear such reduction, so we’ve tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.”
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“Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.”
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“Appreciation is a better stimulant than money. Money boosts the ego, but appreciation touches the soul.”
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“The ego always wants to compete and win, but the spirit always wants to find unity and harmony.”
“When you talk, don’t talk to express your ego. Talk to reveal beauty to your listeners.”
“Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.”
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Dee Remy “It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.Wasn’t it, after all, a kind of life?And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.”
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“Wisdom makes you humble; knowledge enhances your ego.”
“You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.”
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“Healing and Ego never walk togetherSlobodan B.M.”
“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.”
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“Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul’s potential.”
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