Ego Quotes - Page 14

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego-your need to posses and control-and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous-lar ge souled.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

I'm not sure the ring is big enough to hold both these egos!

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.