perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.
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Dagmar tried to stand, and Gwenvael caught her hand, pulling her back down. "You can't leave me. I'm tortured and brooding. You need to show me how much you adore me so I can learn to love myself again.""You've never stopped loving yourself.""Because I'm amazing.
The thing that I__ most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.
Ego is borne of the need to __rove_ oneself instead of making the choice to __e_ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.
I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.
When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.
If I am indeed my own god, I__ better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself.
Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.
ego promenades, flounces, pushes in unwanted places, trips, stands on others, whereas a sense of destiny grounds - you just do what you do
What insanity would lead me to believe that I possess the power, much less the aptitude to manipulate all of the consequences out of all of my decisions?
No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such.
Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.
I often think myself to be so ingenious that I don__ even realize that my own plans may actually be my own undoing. Therefore, I might be wise to realize that God__ plans undo what I__e done that__ undoing me.
Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.
In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.
Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don__ need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all.
If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we should think about getting our light from Someone else before it gets a whole lot darker.