... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
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John Lennon
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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JeanJacques Rousseau
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
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Deepak Chopra
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.
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Terence McKenna
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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Jim Butcher
More Quotes By Jane Austen
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.