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

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Ego Quotes #Complaining Quotes #Strategy Quotes

“All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.”

Source : Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.23, Penguin
“Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.”
“We have to learn to live with uncertainty.”
“We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.”
“Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.”
“You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.”

Source : "Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.
“Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.50, Macmillan
“Arab civilization has collapsed. It wonâ€™t recover in my lifetime.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 19, 2014

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