"If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing itself in the very act of feeding itself."
"If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice."
"If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me."
"Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate."
"If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was."
"People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to s..."
- Shannon L. Alder
"It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place."
"I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat."
- Robin Hobb
"We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant o..."