Ego Quotes - Page 31

Oregon welcomed me like a beloved child, enfolded me in her cool arms, shushed my turbulent thoughts, and promised peace through her whispering pines.

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.

Tell me again how much you agree with me.

I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was.

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.

Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.

We were not born to sue, but to command.

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.

I know perfectly well my own egotism.

The economic base of that rural Oregon area used to be manufacturing and logging. And that went away and they feel nobody has been speaking to them and finally Donald Trump has spoken to them.

Don't let your ego get in the way of your success.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.