People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.
When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.
I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. The only thing you could definitely say...
We don't want to eliminate the ego completely. Otherwise we'd be wandering around the house each morning, drinking coffee for hours, saying, 'Who the hell am I?' We need the ego to sustain a sense of...
Good – nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.
If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing.
In reality, the outer instruments {hands, feet, eyes, etc} are not the hindrance {for liberation}; it is the inner instrument {mind, intellect, chit and ego} that is obstructive.
At some time during the process, {of writing} I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months...
I want to make sure Kiara's got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep.
And I realized that I'd tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from...
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he'd been flattered at the time. Now he considers the nature of diamonds. Although sharp and...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...