The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.
– Warsan Shire
Related Quotes:
- I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running. – Warsan Shire
- Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat. – Warsan Shire
- Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat. – Warsan Shire
- His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay. – Warsan Shire
- It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me. – Warsan Shire
- The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon. – Warsan Shire
- all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun. – Warsan Shire
- I write because it hurts.because I need it to hurt.because it hurts in the mostbeautiful way possible.(because it hurts like you) – F D Soul
- What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation. – Dada Bhagwan
- You don’t kill your ego. You overcome it by loving other people. And for that you need both ego and super-ego. – Robin Sacredfire
- Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real selves – Kapil Kumar Bhaskar
- Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders. – Marya Hornbacher
- Blind minds are worst than blind eyes. That you have eyes does not mean that you have vision. Visionaries do not look they see whlie people look. – Patience Johnson
- I let go of all that I had thought was wounded, for there is no ego to wound, no ego to hold on with; there is only love & freedom to love. – Jay Woodman
- Love isn’t blind. Maybe we are all born blind and love finally gives us sight. – Kamand Kojouri
- Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever. – Debasish Mridha
- Ego is based on judgment. Stop judging and you will be free from the ego: in the Oneness there is no judgment, only Unconditional Love. – Human Angels
- Self-love is often equated with self-esteem but when it makes you blind to your own faults and gives you an inflated ego, it is time to introspect. – Balroop Singh
- Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful… – Jos N Harris
- It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to. – Chrissy Moon
- Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering. – Paulo Coelho
- Your music hurts, the way sunshine hurts when you’ve existed for a long time in darkness. – Thea Harrison
- Oh yes, it hurts at times to be alone among the stars. But it hurts a lot more to be alone at a party. A lot more. – George RR Martin
- It hurts when you lose a friend to death, it hurts even more when you lose a friend still living. – CJ Tulli
- Hurts not transformed are transferred. Let your hurts bring on healing. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- People become so obsessed with the future, they make it up. – Alena Graedon
- Society has become so obsessed with sex that it seeps from all the pores of our national life. – Billy Graham
- Don’t even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years. – Brandon Shire
- Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind. – Dada Bhagwan
- The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world. – Dada Bhagwan
- What I want, it is my ego’s demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that. – Debasish Mridha
- Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness. – Frank Wanderer
- Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don’t accept the ego of ordinary people. – Amit Kalantri
- Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag. – RuPaul
- Your ego decides the humanity in you…Higher the ego lesser the humanity…. – Adil Adam Memon
- Consider intentions carefully. Karma gives a damn about ego, awards allegiance to none, and its justice is truly blind. – TF Hodge
- Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God’s eyes is faithfulness to His calling. – Billy Graham
- And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. – Anonymous
- How often do we find the blind leading the not-so-blind? – Asoka Nimal Jinadasa
- You’ll understand me when you’re older. Then you’ll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you’re no longer yourself. – Francesca Marciano