Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

Carlos Castaneda

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Agnes Martin

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

Alan Sugar

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

Alan Keyes

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Alan Keyes

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

Charlotte Bronte

Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

Charlotte Bronte

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Charlotte Bronte

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

Byron Katie

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

Catherine Ashton

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Jane Wagner

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

Alanis Morissette

The ego is a fascinating monster.

Alan Watts

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

Alan Watts

The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego

Alan Watts

To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.

Alan Watts

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Thelma Drake

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

Kim Cattrall

There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life.

Franco Pavoncello

The outcome might very well be that together with (Berlusconi?s) defeat this time we may also see his disappearance from the political scene.

George William Russell

The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.

Carlo Ancelotti

We didn't deserve this defeat. I think we have played at the same level as Barcelona. We've had good opportunities to score but we've missed them.

Charlie Sheen

Defeat is not an option. Period. The End.

Beverly Sills

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

Dirk Nowitzki

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

Atharva Veda

Let us not seek the outer empire; let us become the rulers of the inner empire. Let us not try to defy the outer enemy, leaving the inner foe to grow in striking power. We have Krishna with us, and so, who can defeat us? We shall win through winning His Grace.