If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Sydney J. Harris

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I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

The ego gets what it wants with words. The soul finds what it needs in silence.

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Caring for others over caring for yourself gets you out of your own self. But if caring for others becomes a source of pride, the self is strengthened and you're back to where you started.

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