If you're afraid to do something in a social setting, it is because you are more invested in someone else's opinion of you than you are in your own opinion of yourself.

Luca Dellanna

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Egotism sucks us down like the law of gravity.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Benjamin Franklin

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

Malidoma Patrice Somé

The more you dis-identify with your ego, the more complete is your freedom.

The Ancient Sage

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

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