Best ego & pain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.”

Pain Ego Hatred Curiosity Greed Sexuality Generosity Isolation Frustration Rebellion Denied Tenderness Poisoning Repressed

Book:The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

“Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.”

Sometimes Pain Spiritual Joy Ego Surrender

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can respond from spirit, ensuring a miracle.”

Happens Pain Spirit Happened Ego Miracle Up To You

Author:Marianne Williamson

“When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies.”

Littles Self Enough Pain Dies Ego Built Intense Mechanism Self Destruct

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.”

Children Stories Feelings Pain Young Community Space Rooms Ego Connections Outlets Young Children

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.”

Want Giving Pain Past Given Ego Want U Giving In

Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect.”

Want Sometimes Pain Effects Ego Indication Exhilarating

Author:Alex Ebert

“I find my own pain and others' difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they'll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it's a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.”

Ifs Way Want Trying Pain Causes Difficult My Own Struggle Ego Harm Compassionate Tolerate

Author:Danny Boyle

“Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.”

Source: Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”

Pain Ego Stupidity Nfl Narcissism Egotism Humility And Modesty Anesthetics People Stupidity

Author:Frank Leahy

“Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.”

Pain Happiness Forget Conditions Ego

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.”

Inspirational Heart Eye Pain Spiritual Culture Emotion Ego Compassionate Exploitation Rise Above

Book:Being Vegan

Source: Being Vegan

“I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.'”

Ifs Trying I Can Shows Pain Guy Hurt Honest Love You Balance Ego Accounts Being Honest Just Being Royal I Love You Very Positive Promoters Accolades

Author:Mark Feuerstein

“If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.”

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)

“All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”

Pain Lying Protect Ego Liars Shields

Author:Aminatta Forna

“Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.”

Men Pain Produce Ego Achievement Tasks Constant Males Cooks Cheese Epic Chef Toasts Male Ego

Author:Belle de Jour

“I will go through a lot of pain to beat someone. If there's pride and ego on the line, if I'm desperate, then I'm willing to go to a place where it hurts a lot more.”

Ifs Pain Hurt Lines Willing Pride Ego Beats Desperate It Hurts

Author:Shalane Flanagan

“It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast true nature.”

World Play Home Pain Roles Risk Ego Pressure Guides Release Liberation True Nature

Author:Joanna Macy

“There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.”

People Has Beens Made Real Self Pain Form Desire Goal Loss Compassion Teacher Humility Taught Letting Go Ego Depth Limitation Superficial

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.”

Knows Heart Pain Dangerous Lovers Ego Worship Weapons Activist Seekers Orientation Without God Purification

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

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