It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)

It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time.

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

Wagging tongues from prejudiced, sophisticated facade of show-off people can never blemish any honest, genuine, golden heart.

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.

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me.“Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.

Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.

...muchos sistemas acaban convirtiendo la humildad imaginada en una forma de vanidad, de modo que acaban igualmente en vanidad.

La persona que tú mismo sientes ser, de acuerdo con los Sufis, es una falsa persona que no tiene una realidad verdadera.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

Every morning the first thing I do is serve my husband a bowl full of praises. More then his stomach I try to keep his ego full.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.