People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people´s characters. -- Margaret Halsey
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson
The nice thing about egotists is that they don´t talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken
You probably wouldn´t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller
I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell
When one find´s oneself in a hole of one´s own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one´s work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters
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