“You are captive of your lower-self (ego); you nullify it and break the snare so that you arrive at your real nest.”

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist

“Do not kill your ego and do not let your ego to kill you. Control your ego and rule over it.”

Elia M. Ramollah (1973) founder and leader of the El Yasin Community

“You can do anything when it's not real.
When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

“You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.”

Eva Ibbotson book The Dragonfly Pool

“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”

Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

“You cannot keep birds from flying over your head
but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

“When you break someone's heart,
you also break yours.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to
self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt,
that's real power.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

“You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer