66 Quotes About Ego-centric

Right or not, I love two things more than anything else. First, I love me. Second, I love using you to love me. And if I were to add a third thing to this mess, it would be that neither of these are love.

The pathology of greed is always greater than the object that greed pursues. Therefore, anything obtained by greed will eventually be killed by the very greed that worked so diligently to possess it. Hence, the pathology.

To be your own god is to be the biggest participant in creating your own hell.

If I demand that I be the captain of my own ship, I’ll probably be spending most of my time in a lifeboat. And if I then demand to be the captain of the lifeboat, I’ll probably be spending all of my time being the lunch of something that doesn’t care that I’m a captain.

Undoubtedly, the loneliest person on the planet is that individual who has successfully lived out their lives making their lives all about their lives. And while that might seem rather sad to most of us, at least they’ll feel that they’re in good company.

An agenda serves myself, while a conviction serves everyone except myself.

Sacrifice is the giving of self so that I don’t die in the service of self.

My life expended in the service of my life becomes something so terribly narrow that the value of my existence outside of my existence has no value. But if I dare to make myself a servant to others, I have made myself of value to everyone.

It is in attempting to solve all of my problems on my own that I end up creating some of the greatest problems that I’ll ever own.