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"My ego is the wall between you and me."
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"You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while."
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"I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point."
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"If you praise others you are considered a nice person, but if you praise yourself you are arrogant or nonreligious! What a society, eh? No wonder your self - esteem is low."
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Personal Development
"Liberation from ego is what we shramanas are seeking, O Exalted One. If I were your disciple, O Venerable One, I'm afraid it might befall me that my ego would be pacified and liberated only seemingly, only illusorily, that in reality it would survive and grow great, for then I would make the teaching, my discipleship, my love for you, and the community of the monks into my ego!"
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"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."
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"God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it."
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"The ego of the mind can entrap you in a web of dilution."
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"If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you."
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"There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good."
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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
Life
"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."
Responsibility
"We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war."
Conflict
"Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves."
Truth
"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
Adaptation
"Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones."
Recognition
"Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it."
Knowledge
"The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power."
Power
"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
Strength
"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still."
Time
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