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C.S. Lewis
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
topics: conceit , ego , self-worth  
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and genuinely loved; that she, too, was addressed respectfully. No doubt that letter was destined to lie in her box and lead to nothing. But none the less, I am certain that she would keep it all her life as a precious treasure, as her pride and justification, and now at such a minute she had thought of that letter and brought it with naive pride to raise herself in my eyes that I might see, that I, too, might think well of her.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one of you, stupider and lower than I." He longed to revenge himself on every one for his own unseemliness. He suddenly recalled how he had once in the past been asked, "Why do you hate so and so, so much?" And he had answered them, with his shameless impudence, "I'll tell you. He has done me no harm. But I played him a dirty trick, and ever since I have hated him.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
You said just now, "Don't be so ashamed of yourself, because that's the root of your trouble"––with those words, you seem to have reached right into my innermost soul. What I mean is, when I visit people, I always feel that I'm really the lowest of the low, that everybody takes me for a buffoon, so I say to myself, why shouldn't I act the fool, I'm not afraid of what any of you might think, because every single one of you is even worse than me. That's why I'm a buffoon, I'm a buffoon born of shame, great starets, of shame. It's anxiety pure and simple that makes me so unruly.
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John Piper
O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have.
topics: ego , faith , prayer , pride , religion  
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Francis Bacon
and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions
topics: ego , human-nature  
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Robert H. Schuller
Big egos have little ears.
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Rick Warren
Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.
topics: ego , inspirational , life , soul  
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Thomas Carlyle
Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.
topics: ego , lost , self , thoughts  
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Why, it was just for the sake of being an enigma perhaps--that I have been guilty of all stupidity.
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Byron J. Rees
Por intensa que sea mi experiencia, soy consciente de la presencia y de la crítica de una parte de mi ser, la cual, digámoslo así, no es parte de mí, sino un espectador que no comparte la experiencia, pero toma nota de ella, y que no es más yo que tú.
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Ronald Reagan
Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
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