quotes on ego

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Bill Watterson



Imitation is the highest form of pissing me off. Quit stealing my content and violating my copyright. ~Jen T. Verbumessor



Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells



We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was. ~Bernard Malamud



To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. ~Bertrand Russell



For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. ~Elizabeth Bowen



We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923



The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld



With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb



Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb



We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. ~Robert Herrick



Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ~Attributed to George Carlin



One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~Booker T. Washington



If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies. ~Barbara Ehrenreich If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler



It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. ~Susan B. Anthony



War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. ~Oprah Winfrey



In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer