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#1

“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: altruism, care, caring, designer, ego, happiness, life, love, nobody, self-love, self-sacrifice, selfish, wisdom

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#2

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: ego, fame, openness, patience, receptivity

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#3

“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.”
― Tennessee Williams

tags: blindness, ego, fear, heart, life, love, vanity

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#4

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: cosmos, ego, infinity, introspection, meditation, self

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#5

“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
― Terence McKenna

tags: chaos, control, ego

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#6

“Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself…

Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the self at all. You don’t know who you are. If you had known, then there would have been no problem— then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worried what others say about you— it is irrelevant!

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.”
― Osho

tags: ego, meditation, osho, self-consciousness

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#7

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”
― Bill Bullard

tags: accountability, ego, empathy, inspirational, knowledge, opinion

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#8

“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: conceit, ego, self-worth

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#9

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: awaken, awakening, awareness, conscious-awareness, conscious-living, consciousness, ego, ego-death, habits, thoughts

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#10

“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore

tags: ego, life

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#11

“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

tags: ego, life, psychedelics, shamanism, slavery

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#12

“[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

tags: ego, selfishness

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#13

“The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

tags: appetite, challenge, conquer, decision, ego, greed, lust, pride, quotes, spiritual, truth, turmoil

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#14

“LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self.

MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

tags: compassion, ego, egotism, empathy, love, others, self, self-respect, sympathy

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#15

“The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.”
― Gordon Ramsay

tags: ego

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#16

“The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”
― Hamza Yusuf

tags: ego, egoism, intelligence, weak, wisdom, wise

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#17

“The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Darker Side of Life

tags: author, books, cyberpunk, dark, dark-elves, ego, elves, fantasy, fiction, future, future-present, life, light, philosophy, series, urban-fantasy, wisdom

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#18

“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

tags: destruction, evil, pride, recklessness, ruin, tyranny, vanity

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#19

“The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus.

The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus.

But this was not how the author of the book ended the story.

He said that when Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears.

'Why do you weep?' the goddesses asked.

'I weep for Narcissus," the lake replied.

'Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus,' they said, 'for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate his beauty close at hand.'

'But... was Narcissus beautiful?' the lake asked.

'Who better than you to know that?' the goddesses asked in wonder. 'After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!'

The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:

'I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.'

'What a lovely story,' the alchemist thought.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: beauty, male-beauty, narcissus, perspective, vanity

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#20

“No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

tags: vanity

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#21

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: arrogance, arrogant, balance, corruption, ego, egotism, females, flaunt, girls, gossip, gossiping, head, hold-head, humble, humility, ignorant, immaterial, integrity, ladies, lady, materialism, no-merit, no-substance, no-value, pollution, proud, quality, shallow, shallowness, sins, superficial, superficiality, vain, valueless, vanity, virtue, woman, women, women-rights, women-strengths

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#22

“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: conscience, ego, sinners, vanity

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#23

“A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: fyodor-dostoyevsky, notes-from-the-underground, vanity

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#24

“Murderous, mutual loathing between tribes was no more explicable, or complicated, then the genocidal urges of chimpanzees—a fact of nature that we humans, vainly and disingenuously, pretend our codes of civilization transcend.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

tags: animalistic, civilization, human-nature, murder, savagery, vanity, violence

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#25

“Beauty doesn't see itself and when it does something is lost.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Cocaine Confidence

tags: beauty, vanity

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#26

“The glorification of self-image is the pox that permeates all facets of America’s epoxy culture.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: american-culture, ego-egotist, egoistic, egotism, identity, self-image, self-promotion, vanity

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#27

“Ego and vanity that both, hold such an invisible fire, which flames, upon oneself.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

tags: vanity

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#28

“Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

tags: calling, conversion, convert, diminishing-life, diminishment, distractions, gift, great, greatness, humanity, life, poverty, produce, product, productivity, purpose, time, time-consumption, value, vanity, waste, wasting-time, wealth, work, world

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