Quotes About Ego

From the beginning this "self" does not exist, yet because we're so firmly attached to the idea of it, we spend much of our lives defending or enlarging or satisfying this imaginary self. Meditation helps us to see its conceptual nature, to see that in reality it does not exist, that it is simply an idea, an extraneous projection onto what's happening in the moment.

So it is very helpful to begin to recognize this comparing mind, this conceit of "I'm better than" or "I'm worse than" someone else. When we do not see it clearly, it becomes the source of much suffering. It makes us feel separated and apart from others; we reinforce the contraction of self.

She destroyed egos by the score and made men hate themselves in the morning by the way she found them, used them, and tossed them aside.

The Little Me wants to strangle the Big Me within."   He

If you start buying your own bullshit, you risk becoming management material.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

Actually nerve is one of the qualities it takes to tackle a first novel, the others being inflated ego and a gambler's sense of crazed bravado, all of which I felt imbued with, more or less, when I sat down to write my account of one woman's efforts to keep her ex-husband, a deranged fence jumper, out of her apartment and life.

People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

He waited until she was standing directly across his desk from him before he said quietly, You've chosen a poor time to apologize,Lauren. I have to leave for a luncheon appointment in five minutes. Lauren almost choked on his outrageous presumption that she owed him an apology,but she merely favored him with an amused smile. I hate to bruise your ego, but I didn't come up here to apologize.

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?

T]here is no permanent unchanging spirit which can be considered 'Self' or 'Soul', or 'Ego'.

The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

There is one thing which no one will permit to be treated lightly—himself.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

there would be no "humiliation" if we had learned to put self in its place, to see ourselves in proper perspective before God and other men.

He is suffering from delusions of adequacy.

General Douglas MacArthur was the most brilliant, most important, and most valuable military leader in American history—at least that's what Douglas MacArthur thought. When asked by a proper British gentlewoman if he had ever met the famous general, Dwight D. Eisenhower—himself about to march into history—supposedly replied, "Not only have I met him, ma'am; I studied dramatics under him for five years in Washington and four years in the Philippines.

Las personas dogmáticas cuentan con un "yo totalitario" que rechaza tajantemente cualquier información distinta a la que ya tienen. Si solamente creo en mí y pienso que los demás están equivocados, la intransigencia se multiplica de manera exponencial.

La defensa de la identidad personal es un proceso natural y saludable. Detrás del ego que acapara está el yo que vive y ama, pero también está el yo lastimado, el yo que exige respeto, el yo que no quiere doblegarse, el yo humano: el yo digno. Una cosa es el egoísmo moral y el engreimiento insoportable del que se las sabe todas, y otra muy distinta, la autoafirmación y el fortalecimiento del sí mismo.

Qué se opone a la arrogancia/soberbia? La virtud de la humildad, la cual consiste en reconocerse a sí mismo tal como uno es, sin sobrevalorase ni despreciarse.

libertad auténtica es cuando la mente se desprende de lo inútil y de los miedos; cuando decide rechazar todos los apegos y los supuestos privilegios (estatus, poder, fama) que alimentan el ego hasta convertirlo en algo insufrible. Placeres del tener que nos atan o nos hacen caminar en círculos; malos placeres, diría

Cats, like men, are flatterers.