A great artist is a great man in a great child.
If we want to live perfectly happy lives...we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy and worry. When we learn to live selflessly, putting others before ourselves, committing to what is noble, rig...
I want you to know that life will try to crack you like an egg and your silence will eventually break. Someday you will spill some of those painful secrets and taste a modicum of much-needed freedom. You will lose a great deal as a result but the gai...
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end...
Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person.
Great people have great values and great ethics.
Great people give it with reproaches.
It is fitting for a great God to forgive great sinners.
Great needs grow from great possessions.
There is a great art in selling the wind.
Great difficult is the dogged bedfellow of great wealth, which always renders great wealth as less than great. Yet, great wealth as bequeathed by God is robustly free of such travails, which always renders it greater than great.
Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.
I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.
I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.
Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.