Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Dan Rather

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

Alan Ball

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

Al Pacino

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

Chogyam Trungpa

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

Chogyam Trungpa

Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism

Chogyam Trungpa

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

Chogyam Trungpa

As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

Anne Finch

They err, who say that husbands can't be lovers.

William Shakespeare

Lovers ever run before the clock

William Shakespeare

In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow

William Shakespeare

Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties

William Shakespeare

The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.

William Shakespeare

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

William Shakespeare

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

Chris Carrabba

I'll be true, I'll be useful...I'll be cavalier...I'll be yours my dear.and I'll belong to you...if you'll just let me through.this is easy as lovers go,so don't complicate it by hesitating.and this is wonderful as loving goes,this is tailor-made, whats the sense in waiting?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Cheri Huber

All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you.

Bing Crosby

My golf is woeful, but I will never surrender

Carlos Santana

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing.

Barbara de Angelis

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

Brenda Strong

We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.

Brad Henry

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

Beth Moore

Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.