Don't Hurt My Ego Quotes

#1. The instinct of worship is still so strong upon us that, having nearly worn out our capacity for treating kings and such kind of persons as sacred, we are ready to invest a majority of our own selves with the same kind of reverence.

Auberon Herbert

#2. In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

Danger Mouse

#3. I don't get it. Why are many people drawn to someone who's hurt them? Maybe it's an ego thing- being hurt sucks, and you think you can erase that hurt by going back to the person who caused it. Then it will be like it never happened in the first place. Only problem is that it did happen.

Allison Van Diepen

#4. I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke somebody's ego or be careful about hurting someone's feelings. But I also want to know that I can still go into the world and be with other people and make music.

Jack White

#5. Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.

Rebecca Goldstein

#6. The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

Alexander Lowen

#7. The houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritc hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. You never know how a good quest is going to end.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. Real success or victory is measured by the quality of that very process of attention and mindful involvement, practice, and commitment.

Chungliang Al Huang

#10. You think I'm drunk and talking nonsense? I'm not. I would know she was being well taken care of, and I could go pleasantly to seed here in the mountains. It would be a fine, quiet feeling.

Yasunari Kawabata

#11. You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#12. The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.

Mark Russell

#13. We can doubt the Lord when we go through tough times, but you know that He's always got your best interest at heart.

Mike Fisher

#14. I located America thirty-one years ago in a Model T Ford and planted my flag. I've tried a couple of times since to find it again, riding in faster cars and on better roads, but America is the sort of place that is discovered only once by any one man.

E.B. White

#15. It's also why we've recently seen an avalanche of new studies, books, and video games built on the myelin-centric principle that practice staves off cognitive decline.

Daniel Coyle

#16. ...when I thought he loved me, when I thought we were joined not just for breath's time, but for the long continuance, the hard candies of femur and stone, the fastnesses.

Sharon Olds