"It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!"

-- Wendelin Van Draanen

#Ego Quotes #Embarrassing Quotes #Slaying Quotes

“As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.”
“All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.”
“organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.”
“America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.”
“Where is the direction of influence going to run? It's going to run - and the research confirms this again and again - it's going to run from the experienced to the inexperienced. The net outcome of sex education, styled as Rogerian encountering, is more sexual experience.”
“I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not be stifled or concealed; second, that there is no ground for the view that Christianity is the only alternative to communism, or that there can be no sound character training that is not based on religion; and, third, I want to make some practical suggestions to the parents who are not believers, on what they should tell the children about God, and what sort of moral training they should give them.”
“The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.”
“It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you.”

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