"You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that."

-- Christine Lagarde

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Ego Quotes

“Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.”
“If you're on the path you're meant to be on, everything falls into place; the Universe is telling you that.”
“If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.”
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
“As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives.”
“We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those who have no desires--which is the majority, actually. People can say what they like, they can speak of abnegation, sacrifice, generosity, acceptance, and resignation, but it's all false. The norm is for people to think that they desire whatever comes to them, whatever they achieve along the way or whatever is given to them--they have no preconceived desires.”
“Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.”

Source : Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Salt and Saffron”, p.16, A&C Black
“What are we to think of the shortsightedness of the great mass of people who are content to do nothing about it, and even worse, the greed or venality of the rich and powerful who deliberately bar the way to human survival?”

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