{"quotes":[{"text":"Always remember the hankering for the 'other' is never for them, but to use them as a means of your EGO, you turn them into a commodity and thats why every relationship gets ruined. Mind YOU!","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["egocentric","hankering","other-people","people","people-relations","relationship"],"id":11446,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"},{"text":"The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["consequences","ego","egocentric","fear","fearful","frightened","frightening","greed","narcissism","narcissistic","outcomes","self-centered","self-centeredness","selfish","selfishness"],"id":35238,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"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.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["destructive","ego","egocentric","feed","feeding","gorge","gorging","greed","greedy","kill","killing","murder","narcissism","narcissistic","self","self-centered","self-destruct","self-destruction","self-mutilation","suicidal","suicide"],"id":69534,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["cheap","cost","deceit","deception","ego","egocentric","fake","fooling","foolish","fraudulence","fraudulent","gift","gifts","give","giving","greed","greedy","life","mislead","misled","narcissism","narcissistic","people","pretend","pretending","price","self","self-centered"],"id":79169,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Greed is the fast-track to poverty.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bankrupt","bankruptcy","egocentric","greed","greedy","impoverished","poverty","self-centered","selfish","selfishness"],"id":81232,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"You will find your true spirit when you lose your egocentric, self-centered desires and fill your mind with pure love and non-judgmental thoughts.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-md","egocentric","find-your-true-spirit","inspirational","non-judgmental","philosophy","quotes","self-centered"],"id":159489,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["burden","detractors","distract","egocentric","egoism","egotism","egotist","fake-friends","fatal","laziness","lazy","michael-bassey-johnson","mission","narcissism","parasites","perch","satisfaction","self-absorbed","self-centred","self-interest","self-obsessed","vain"],"id":168283,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bankrupt","bankruptcy","blind","blindness","debt","demand","demanding","denial","ego","egocentric","entitlement","imaginary","imagine","narcissism","narcissistic","owe","owed","real","selfish","selfishness"],"id":177021,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["egocentric","miracle-focused-gospel","selfish","teachings"],"id":181294,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["denial","deny","ego","egocentric","god","gods","jesus","obedience","obey","praise","selfishness","serve","worship","worshipping"],"id":183857,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}