... 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.

Jane Austen
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  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 Jane Austen
  1. 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.

  2. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

  3. 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.

  4. 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!

  5. 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.

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