Norm MacDonald on ego
Norm MacDonald73 quotes“The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.”
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Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you’re all right. I don’t have to go to premières.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald I’m thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
Norm MacDonaldNorm MacDonald You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin’ life again? Man, that’s rough, eh?
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I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
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RamakrishnaRamakrishna As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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RamakrishnaRamakrishna The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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Meher BabaMeher Baba When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.
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