Quotes About Ego

Surrender your ego to enjoy peace of mind and the beauty of equality and harmony.

The ego destroys its egoist silently and suddenly, as a termite does.

The ego, vanity, jealousy and such other flaws define the imperceptive attitude and fly silently, towards self-victimizing.

The most difficult step is to face your ego, and the most beautiful gain is to blow away your ego.

Weak; however, how? We all show as a weak figure in front of trade, ego, public relations, conflict of interest, politics, and even love affairs; otherwise, justice and peace would have prevailed.

A Zendo is not a peaceful haven but a furnace room for the combustion of our egotistical delusions.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.

To get angry with oneself and reject oneself is not helpful and is not what the Buddha teaches. The best thing is not to say either "I'm all good" or "I'm worthless; I'm no good." The best thing is not to think about oneself, not talk about oneself, not dwell upon oneself at all – to be neither overconfident nor self-deprecating.

To get angry with oneself and reject oneself is not helpful and is not what the Buddha teaches. The best thing is not to say either "I'm all good" or "I'm worthless; I'm no good." The best thing is not to think about oneself, not talk about oneself, not dwell upon

One advertisement proclaims, A flat stomach is beautiful! For me, a flat ego is beautiful.

While your ego is always trying to figure out its place in the world, your true self knows that your place is always right here, right now.

Isn't that petty?" "Anna, you have not yet seen pettiness. When a couple of tough guys like the general and Lugala Tsu decide to confront each other, vistas of pettiness open up that you and I can barely comprehend.

I, me, my, mine— Each one a danger sign. "That's what the witches used to tell us. Listen for those words, they said. If a person uses them too often or with too much emphasis, then he or she is sinking down into the well of self. And that is a dangerous situation. You may be face-to-face with a greedhead or a power freak.

Kat hates men like that, men who are too attractive for their own good-and know it.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Buenos o malos, todos los hombres se creen que en cada una de sus empresas debes colocarlos en un altar cual san Jorge que mata al dragón.

It wasn't innocent blood. To my father nothing about Amalia ever seemed innocent. He, so furious, so bitter and yet so eager for pleasure, so irascible and so egotistical, couldn't bear that she had a friendly, at times even joyful, relationship with the world. He recognized in it a trace of betrayal.

and my ego gladly avoids leaning out the window.

Bons ou maus, todos os homens acham que, a cada ação deles, você deve colocá-los num altar como um são Jorge matando o dragão.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

To conceive of a god in one's image is already quite a feat for inflated egos. To imagine, however, that this likeness has chosen your generation amongst the thousands for ending the party is to bring the egocentrism to new heights.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

In addition to the Self, Jung postulated archetypal components which play specific roles in the psychic development and social adjustment of everyone. These include the ego, persona, shadow, anima, and animus. Jung considered these to be archetypal structures which are built into the personal psyche in the form of complexes during the course of development. Each is a psychic organ operating in accordance with the biological principles of adaptation, homeostasis, and growth.

Although we experience the ego as the continuing centre of our existence it is, in fact, merely the Self's executive. 'For indeed our consciousness does not create itself – it wells up from unknown depths. In childhood it awakens gradually, and all through life it wakes each morning out of the depths of sleep from an unconscious condition. It is like a child that is born daily out of the primordial womb of the unconscious