#ego

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#act #ego #having #learn #moving

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher. ↗

— Rogers Hornsby

#egotistical #every #every time #feel #hands

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#contract #deal #exclusive #first #ford

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#deed #degrades #demolish #ego #eventually

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#direction #ego #environment #evolution #fabric

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#evolution #only #preliminary #self-restraint #sexual

One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at." "Meaning you?" "What else? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#ego #jace-wayland #city

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#books #broad-mindedness #classic #education #imagery

I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#luna-lovegood #friends

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#alter #anyone #collective #egos #gets