The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

Warsan Shire
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. - John Lennon

  2. Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain. - JeanJacques Rousseau

  3. The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life. - Deepak Chopra

  4. Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. - Terence McKenna

  5. 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. - Jim Butcher

More Quotes By Warsan Shire
  1. With you, intimacy colours my voice.even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'.

  2. How far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps?

  3. Loving you was like going to war I never came back the same.

  4. Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her. She was splintered wood and sea water. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>They said she reminded them of the war. On her fifteenth birthday you taught herhow...

  5. Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

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