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“Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.”

Want Moving Mistake Risk Ego Tired Foolish Discouragement

Author:Christine Kane

“If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.”

Ifs Years Wells Kind Self Enough School Past Lines Risk Taught Ego Clothes High School Twenties Prepared Lifetime Torture Be Kind Biographies Preservation Flattering Self Preservation Edited

Author:Sharyn McCrumb

“A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.”

Trying Mean Bigs Ability Risk Ego Prepared Bad Things Big Ego

Author:Brian Eno

“Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.”

Want Humans Turns Difficult Struggle Risk Ego Ambition Radical Vulnerability Boredom Lure

Author:C.E. Morgan

“I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am" "Unbelievable," I said in disgust. "What's unbelievable?" "Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!”

Want Needs Said Black Risk Ego Losing Clouds Holes Take Me Disgusting I Want You Unbelievable Hubris Black Hole Losing Someone Antimatter

Book:The Travis Family, The Complete Series: Blue Eyed Devil, Smooth Talking Stranger, Sugar Daddy, and Brown-Eyed Girl

Source: The Travis Family, The Complete Series: Blue Eyed Devil, Smooth Talking Stranger, Sugar Daddy, and Brown-Eyed Girl

“If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Feels Persons Self Use My Own Ability Risk Objects Ego Reflection Commitment Absence Willingness Exploitation Exposure Ability To See I Need Him

Author:Erich Fromm

“Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature.”

World Needs Firsts Self Matter Enough Home Care Earth Peace Waiting Acting Risk Ego Saved Heal Enlightened Coming Home True Nature Reciprocal

Author:Joanna Macy

“If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.”

Ifs Trying Reason Would Be Risk Stupid Ego No Reason

Author:Kathleen Turner

“The punishment – to the body, the brain, the spirit – a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer is inconceivable to most of us whose idea of personal risk is largely ego-related or emotional.”

Men Ideas Body Spirit Brain Risk Emotional Ego Endure Punishment Related Boxers

Book:On Boxing

Source: On Boxing

“Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for greatness --- one that I believe is found in all living creatures.”

Believe Doe Found I Believe Risk Sea Greatness Pride Lessons Creatures Ego Instinct Miles Vain Living Creatures Turtles Sea Turtle

Author:Mary Alice

“The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.”

People Lines Risk Willing Ego Rewards Recognition Reach Out Employee Recognition

Book:How to Work a Room: Learn the Strategies of Savvy Socializing - for Business and Personal Success

Source: How to Work a Room: Learn the Strategies of Savvy Socializing - for Business and Personal Success

“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